Investigation of Amphibian Mortality Events in Wildlife Reveals an On-Going Ranavirus Epidemic in the North of the Netherlands

• Jolianne M. Rijks ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jolianne M. Rijks, Bernardo Saucedo

  * E-mail: j.m.rijks@uu.nl

  Affiliation Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Bernardo Saucedo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jolianne M. Rijks, Bernardo Saucedo

  Affiliations Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Annemarieke Spitzen-van der Sluijs,

  Affiliation Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Gavin S. Wilkie,

  Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Alphons J. A. M. van Asten,

  Affiliations Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Jan van den Broek,

  Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Health, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Roschong Boonyarittichaikij,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Marisca Stege,

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Fleur van der Sterren,

  Affiliation Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• An Martel,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Frank Pasmans,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Joseph Hughes,

  Affiliation MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Andrea Gröne,

  Affiliations Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Steven J. van Beurden ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Marja J. L. Kik

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Dutch Wildlife Health Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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