White-nose syndrome fungus (geomyces destructans) in Bat, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 290-293

  Puechmaille, Sébastien J ^a   Verdeyroux, Pascal ^b   Fuller, Hubert ^a   Ar Gouilh, Meriadeg ^c   Bekaert, Michaël ^a   Teeling, Emma C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Groupe Chiroptères Aquitaine   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FRANCE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; HIBERNATION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FRANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 76149103892     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.091391     Document Type: Article

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