Clarisse M. Betancourt-Román

TL;DR: The ecology and evolution of Bd in the Americas is reviewed and controversies that make this disease so enigmatic are highlighted and the concept of “the Ghost of Epizootics Past” is introduced to discuss expected patterns in postepizootic host communities.

TL;DR: The authors' experimental and simulation-based results indicate that dust contains living bacterial taxa that can be inactivated following changes in local abiotic conditions and suggest that the bactericidal potential of ordinary window-filtered sunlight may be similar to ultraviolet wavelengths across dosages that are relevant to real buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used high-throughput sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene to assess whether fine-scale variation in urban vegetation influences the diversity, composition, or structure of airborne bacterial communities over time.

TL;DR: The results corroborate earlier findings that abiotic factors are a major determinant of Bd infections and highlight the need for a better understanding of the role that species diversity plays in disease outcomes.

TL;DR: The role of invertebrates as alternative hosts of Bd and their ability to modulate disease dynamics are questioned and some means of persistence in the mesocosm are suggested.