TY - JOUR AU - Weitzman, Chava AU - Kaestli, Mirjam AU - Gibb, Karen AU - Brown, Gregory AU - Shine, Richard AU - Christian, Keith T1 - Disease Exposure and Antifungal Bacteria on Skin of Invasive Cane Toads, Australia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 9 SP - 1770 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Cane toads, an invasive species in Australia, are resistant to fungal pathogens affecting frogs worldwide (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). From toad skin swabs, we detected higher proportions of bacteria with antifungal properties in Queensland, where toad and pathogen distributions overlap, than in other sites. This finding suggests that site-specific pathogen pressures help shape skin microbial communities. KW - Australia KW - cane toad KW - chytridiomycosis KW - antifungal KW - microbiome KW - Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis KW - Rhinella marina KW - invasive species KW - bacteria KW - fungi KW - skin KW - amphibians DO - 10.3201/eid2509.190386 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/9/19-0386_article ER - End of Reference