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Emerging infections add to existing threats to the survival of amphibians worldwide. The olm ( Proteus anguinus ) is a vulnerable, troglobiont urodele species with a small European range and restricted to underground karstic systems. Population declines to emerging threats like the chytrid fungus  Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans , are likely to go unnoticed due to inaccessibility of the species’ habitat. We here studied the interaction between olms and  B. salamandrivorans . Experimental inoculation of olms resulted in low-level, asymptomatic but persistent infections, with limbs as predilection sites. The lack of exponential fungal growth in the olms’ epidermis correlated with limited fungal proliferation and dampened virulence gene expression after exposure to olm skin compounds. The olm is one of few western Palearctic urodeles that is tolerant to  B. salamandrivorans  infection and may act as a subterranean disease reservoir, yet costs of subclinical infection may compromise olm fitness on the long term.

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Dampened virulence and limited proliferation of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans during subclinical infection of the troglobiont olm (Proteus anguinus)