Anesthesia and blood sampling of wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) with an assessment of impacts on survival

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-95

  Wimsatt, Jeffrey ^a,b   O'Shea, Thomas J ^c   Ellison, Laura E ^c   Pearce, Roger D ^d   Price, Valerie R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Bats; Blood; Eptesicus fuscus; Marking effect; PIT tags; Survival

Indexed keywords

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 18444385370     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-41.1.87     Document Type: Article

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