Abstract
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.V. A. Vicente
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology—LABMICRO, Department of Basic Pathology, Federal
University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
e-mail: vaniava63@gmail.com
R. Orelis-Ribeiro
Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
e-mail: raphael.orelis@gmail.com
G. S. de Hoog
Center of Expertise in Mycology RadboudUMC/CWZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
e-mail: s.hoog@westerdijkinstitute.nl
W. A. Boeger (*)
Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Parasitology, Department of Zoology, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
e-mail: wboeger@gmail.com
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