The relationship between the emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the international trade in amphibians and introduced amphibian species

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Global Amphibian Extinction Risk Assessment for the Panzootic Chytrid Fungus (2009, background): “Evidence for extraordinary dispersal speed of Bd has been recorded in some regions [9] and apparently anthropogenic dissemination, especially through the international trade, has contributed decisively to the speed and extent of Bd's spread [46,47].”
A global assessment of alien amphibian impacts in a formal framework (2016, background): “…of a direct relationship between the amphibian trade and the spread of disease is today largely accepted, at least for some pathogens such as chytrid fungi (Fisher & Garner, 2007), and this has led directly to the ban of imports and transportation of salamanders in the USA (US:FWS January 2016).”
Global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and amphibian chytridiomycosis in space, time, and host. (2009, background): “Two ancestral centers of spread have been proposed: out of Africa in the Xenopus trade (124) and out of America in the North American bullfrog [Lithobates (formerly Rana) catesbeianus] trade (36, 40).”