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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.
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Vicente, V.A., Orélis-Ribeiro, R., de Hoog, G.S., Boeger, W.A. (2018). Lethargic Crab Disease: Now You See, Now You Don’t. In: Seyedmousavi, S., de Hoog, G., Guillot, J., Verweij, P. (eds) Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72093-7_11
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