Lind Craig M, McCoy Ciera M, Farrell Terence M
J Wildl Dis. 2018 Apr;54(2):352-356. doi: 10.7589/2017-05-109. Epub 2018 Jan 29.
Snake fungal disease (SFD) is caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola and its documentation in wild snake populations has risen sharply in the past decade. Little is known regarding the fate of individual, free-ranging snakes afflicted with SFD. We monitored an afflicted population of pygmy rattlesnakes ( Sistrurus miliarius) at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in Central Florida, US for 2 yr. The severity of SFD in individual snakes was unrelated to the probability of their recapture later in the study, and half of the snakes diagnosed as severely infected at the onset of the study were recaptured later with no clinical signs of SFD. The clinical progress of 12 serially recaptured individuals also showed that individuals cleared the infection and fluctuated between no or low and severe clinical signs over the 2-yr study.
蛇类真菌病（SFD）由蛇生蛇癣菌（Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola）引起，在过去十年中，野生蛇类种群中该疾病的记录急剧增加。对于感染SFD的自由放养个体蛇的命运，我们知之甚少。我们在美国佛罗里达州中部的伍德拉夫湖国家野生动物保护区对一群感染SFD的侏儒响尾蛇（Sistrurus miliarius）进行了为期两年的监测。个体蛇类中SFD的严重程度与研究后期再次捕获它们的概率无关，并且在研究开始时被诊断为严重感染的蛇中有一半后来被再次捕获，且没有SFD的临床症状。12只被连续再次捕获个体的临床进展也表明，在为期两年的研究中，个体清除了感染，且在无临床症状或低临床症状与严重临床症状之间波动。
