Potential Protective Role of Amphibian Skin Bacteria Against Water Mold <i>Saprolegnia</i> spp.

ABSTRACT: Amphibian populations have experienced a severe decline over the past 40 years, driven primarily by environmental pollution, habitat destruction, climate change, and disease. This work reports, for the first time, saprolegniosis in Pelophylax perezi egg masses and saprolegniosis in amphibians in Portugal. After isolation and phylogenetic analysis, the pathogen was identified as Saprolegnia australis. Following this, the present work intended to screen a collection of P. perezi skin bacteria for the existence of bacterial strains with inhibitory action against the newly identified S. australis SC1 and two other species, Saprolegnia diclina SAP 1010 UE and Saprolegnia australis SAP 1581 UE. The results showed that various bacterial species could inhi

SUBMITTER: Costa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12471046 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature