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Published online 7 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030203-11

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Frog dip detects killer fungus

Infection-detecting bath could aid conservation.

Australian researchers are giving frogs baths. They have developed a dip that detects the killer fungus largely responsible for the worldwide slump in amphibian numbers.

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