Is Xenopus laevis introduction linked with Ranavirus incursion, persistence and spread in Chile?

ABSTRACT: Ranaviruses have been associated with amphibian, fish and reptile mortality events worldwide and with amphibian population declines in parts of Europe. Xenopus laevis is a widespread invasive amphibian species in Chile. Recently, Frog virus 3 (FV3), the type species of the Ranavirus genus, was detected in two wild populations of this frog near Santiago in Chile, however, the extent of ranavirus infection in this country remains unknown. To obtain more information about the origin of ranavirus in Chile, its distribution, species affected, and the role of invasive amphibians and freshwater fish in the epidemiology of ranavirus, a surveillance study comprising wild and farmed amphibians and wild fish over a large latitudinal gradient (2,500 km) was carried out in 2015-201

SUBMITTER: Penafiel-Ricaurte A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9979829 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature