INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL REVIEW The frog has long been used as an experimental subject in various fields of research, yet rarely have reports been published concerning diseases to which it is naturally susceptible. The first investigations on septicemic diseases of frogs were apparently those of Ernst (1890), who reported the isolation of a bacterium from the blood of
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