Consistency of Published Results on the Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Madagascar: Formal Comment on Kolby et al. Rapid Response to Evaluate the Presence of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and Ranavirus in Wild Amphibian Populations in Madagascar

1 Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Mendelssohnstr. 4, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany, 2 Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom, 3 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, United Kingdom, 4 Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Bloco 2, Piso 5, Campo Grande, 1749–016, Lisbon, Portugal, 5 Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Via G. Giolitti, 36, I-10123, Torino, Italy, 6 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group-Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 7 CNRSGuyane, USR 3456, 2 avenue Gustave Charlery, 97300, Cayenne, Guyane Française, 8 Station d’écologie expérimentale du CNRS àMoulis, USR 2936, 2 route du CNRS, 09200, Moulis, France, 9 UFZ–Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany, 10 EcoLab (Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environement), CNRS/Université de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse, France, 11 Département de Biologie Animale et Ecologie, Faculté des Sciences, University of Mahajanga, Ambondrona, B.P. 652, Mahajanga 401, Madagascar, 12 University of Antananarivo, BP 566, Antananarivo 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 13 Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa, 14 Association Mitsinjo, Lot 104 A Andasibe Gare, Andasibe, 514, Madagascar, 15 Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 St., New York, NY, 10024, United States of America, 16 Department of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 22807, United States of America, 17 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, United Kingdom, 18 CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, N°7, 4485–661 Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal