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Lethargic Crab Disease: Now You See, Now You Don’t

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An infectious disease has caused high mortalities in the Brazilian mangrove-land crab, Ucides cordatus. The lethargic crab disease spread northward and southward in waves from Pernambuco State in Brazil. Primary causative agent was the black yeast Exophiala cancerae, with Fonsecaea brasiliensis as a secondary, opportunistic invader. The reasons for coming and going of the disease may be of intrinsic as well as of environmental nature.

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  1. Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology—LABMICRO, Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

    Vania A. Vicente

  2. Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

    Raphael Orélis-Ribeiro

  3. Center of Expertise in Mycology RadboudUMC/CWZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    G. Sybren de Hoog

  4. Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    G. Sybren de Hoog

  5. Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Parasitology, Department of Zoology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

    Walter A. Boeger

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  1. Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology (LCIM), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi

  2. Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    G. Sybren de Hoog

  3. Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Dermatology, EnvA, Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, UPEC, Maisons-Alfort, France

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    Paul E. Verweij

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Vicente, V.A., Orélis-Ribeiro, R., de Hoog, G.S., Boeger, W.A. (2018). Lethargic Crab Disease: Now You See, Now You Don’t. In: Seyedmousavi, S., de Hoog, G., Guillot, J., Verweij, P. (eds) Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72093-7_11

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