Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife - Threats to biodiversity and human health. Movie of the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis , in culture made by Lee Berger. The two stages of B. dendrobatidis , the zoospore and the zoosporangium, are seen in water on a microscope slide. The multiple, small motile bodies are the zoospores, the infective stage of Batrachochytrium . The larger spherical bodies that do not move are the zoosporangia.
Zoospores develop in the zoosporangia and then escape into the water.
A community generated project based in Cairns with the aim of assisting frogs to overcome the impact of infectious and other diseases. The Cairns Frog Hospital is a key component of this strategy, and plays an important role in collecting ill and dead frogs to assist in disease investigations. The project is funded entirely by community and business donations. This community group plays a key role in disease management by collecting northern frogs sent to Victoria in market produce, and devising strategies to lessen the risks of their spreading northern pathogens in Victoria. ARC plays a key role in disease research by working in active collaboration with the AAHL, universities and government bodies.