CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Biologists and veterinarians across the central and eastern United States are calling on researchers at the University of Illinois to help them identify, understand and potentially treat snake fungal disease, a baffling affliction affecting more than a dozen species of wild and captive snakes in at least 15 states.
The Illinois team, led by veterinary clinical medicine professor Dr. Matt Allender and his colleagues at the Illinois Natural History Survey, are targeting every aspect of the disease – its epidemiology, how it grows, how it is transmitted, how to treat it, and even which disinfectants work or don’t work against the primary fungus associated with the disease, Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola.
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