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Promoting global collaboration to improve bioaerosol exposure assessment and un...
Marczylo, Emma L.; Jackson, Simon; Bell, Christine; Andrews, Daniel; Clift, Martin J. D.; Crawford, Ian; Fejer, Gyorgy; Ferguson, Robert M. W.We are surrounded, in both indoor and outdoor environments, by air containing particles of biological origin (bioaerosols). We constantly inhale them, and, depending upon their size, they deposit in different parts of our airways. Despite their ubiquitous nature and our constant exposure, bioaerosol diversity and composition of the environment are not well characterized, and we understand little about which bio...
Post‐epizootic microbiome associations across communities of neotropical amphib...
Jervis, Phillip; Pintanel, Pol; Hopkins, Kevin; Wierzbicki, Claudia; Shelton, Jennifer M.G.; Skelly, Emily; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Almeida‐Reinoso, DiegoMicrobiome–pathogen interactions are increasingly recognized as an important element of host immunity. While these host-level interactions will have consequences for community disease dynamics, the factors which influence host microbiomes at larger scales are poorly understood. We here describe landscape-scale pathogen–microbiome associations within the context of post-epizootic amphibian chytridiomycosis, a di...
Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impac...
Fisher, Matthew C.; Ghosh, Pria; Shelton, Jennifer M. G.; Bates, Kieran; Brookes, Lola; Wierzbicki, Claudia; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Farrer, Rhys A.Parasitic chytrid fungi have emerged as a significant threat to amphibian species worldwide, necessitating the development of techniques to isolate these pathogens into culture for research purposes. However, early methods of isolating chytrids from their hosts relied on killing amphibians. We modified a pre-existing protocol for isolating chytrids from infected animals to use toe clips and biopsies from toe we...