Consistency of Published Results on the Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Madagascar: Formal Comment on Kolby et al. Rapid Response to Evaluate the Presence of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and Ranavirus in Wild Amphibian Populations in Madagascar

Affiliations

• ¹ Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Mendelssohnstr. 4, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany.
• ² Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, United Kingdom; Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Bloco 2, Piso 5, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ³ Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Via G. Giolitti, 36, I-10123, Torino, Italy; IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group-Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
• ⁴ CNRS-Guyane, USR 3456, 2 avenue Gustave Charlery, 97300, Cayenne, Guyane Française; Station d'écologie expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis, USR 2936, 2 route du CNRS, 09200, Moulis, France.
• ⁵ UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany; EcoLab (Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environement), CNRS/Université de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse, France.
• ⁶ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group-Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar; Département de Biologie Animale et Ecologie, Faculté des Sciences, University of Mahajanga, Ambondrona, B.P. 652, Mahajanga 401, Madagascar.
• ⁷ University of Antananarivo, BP 566, Antananarivo 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
• ⁸ Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa.
• ⁹ Association Mitsinjo, Lot 104 A Andasibe Gare, Andasibe, 514, Madagascar.
• ¹⁰ Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY, 10024, United States of America.
• ¹¹ Department of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 22807, United States of America.
• ¹² Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, United Kingdom.
• ¹³ CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, N°7, 4485-661 Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal.