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Frogs with chytridiomycosis can die, be ill or can appear clinically normal. Behavioural changes are the most obvious of the clinical signs, but unless these are prominent, the diagnosis may not be suspected since other changes are less apparent.

Behavioural changes include:

  • Failure to seek shelter
  • Reluctance to flee
  • Sitting with hind legs held away from the body
  • Fitting when handled
  • Loss of righting reflex

Changes to the skin include:

  • Sloughing of the superficial epidermis of the feet and other areas
  • Slight roughening of the surface with minute skin tags
  • Occasional small ulcers or haemorrhage.