Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, PRESENT IN MOUTH OF TADPOLES OF Lithobates catesbeianus (Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802), BULLFROG, IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

摘要

In 1998 an emerging disease, chytridiomycosis, was diagnosed, caused by a non hifal, zoosporic fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, capable of infecting amphibians (Urodela and Anura) and it was considered to be the main cause of the global declineof these animals. In the following years it was found in several countries, including Brazil. Continuing the research work on the presence of this fungus in commercial flocks, tadpoles of bullfrogs were studied, where its presence was possibly found inthe mouth of these animals.