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How a fungus causes the collapse of salamander populations

The fungal skin disease "Chytridiomycosis" is an important cause for amphibian diversity loss. This particular disease is emblematic for human mediated spread of pathogens from their native into new ranges, with the potential to extirpate the newly invaded host populations. The Asian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium... click to read more

Frank Pasmans | Professor at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

An Martel | Professor at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

infectious diseases

environment

fungus

fire salamanders

pathogens

Reading time 3 min

published on Nov 16, 2017

Driving down malaria

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on earth, having killed more people than wars and plagues combined. This is because they spread debilitating diseases like malaria - which affects more than 200 million people each year. Despite a momentous effort to combat the disease over the... click to read more

Andrew Hammond | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

Xenia Karlsson | M.Sc. student at Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

Ziyin Wang | M.Sc. student at Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

health

infectious diseases

CRISPR

malaria

Anophels gambiae

Reading time 4 min

published on Jul 18, 2017