Larissa L. Bailey Joy L. Ware Karen L. Duncan Evan H. Campbell Grant 2008 <p><span>The amphibian chytrid fungus </span><i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i><span>, responsible for the potentially fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis, is known to occur in a large and ever increasing number of amphibian populations around the world. However, sampling has been biased towards stream- and wetland-breeding anurans, with little attention paid to stream-associated salamanders. We sampled three frog and three salamander species in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, Maryland, by swabbing animals for PCR analysis to detect DNA of </span><i>B. dendrobatidis</i><span>. Using PCR, we detected </span><i>B. dendrobatidis</i><span> DNA in both stream and wetland amphibians, and report here the first occurrence of the pathogen in two species of stream-associated salamanders. Future research should focus on mechanisms within habitats that may affect persistence and dissemination of </span><i>B. dendrobatidis</i><span> among stream-associated salamanders</span></p> application/pdf 10.1163/157075408785911020 en Brill Prevalence of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in stream and wetland amphibians in Maryland, USA article