Bilaterale samenwerking met Vietnam Do Vietnamese host-adapted fungal strains threaten the global salamander diversity?

The hypothesis of this project is that B. salamandrivorans has established long term endemism in Vietnamese salamander populations as the result of host-pathogen co-evolution. This project aims at studying pathogen endemism in host communities, which allows maintaining a reservoir from which pathogen spill-over to naïve host communities elsewhere may result in epidemics with significant loss of biodiversity.