| widespread elevational occurrence of antifungal bacteria in andean amphibians decimated by disease: a complex role for skin symbionts in defense against chytridiomycosis. | emerging infectious disease is a growing threat to global health, and recent discoveries reveal that the microbiota dwelling on and within hosts can play an important role in health and disease. to understand the capacity of skin bacteria to protect amphibian hosts from the fungal disease chytridiomycosis caused by batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (bd), we isolated 192 bacterial morphotypes from the skin of 28 host species of frogs (families bufonidae, centrolenidae, hemiphractidae, hylidae, lepto ... | 2018 | 29593698 |