White-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) in bats, Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1237-1242

  Wibbelt, Gudrun ^a   Kurth, Andreas ^b   Hellmann, David ^c   Weishaar, Manfred ^d   Barlow, Alex ^e   Veith, Michael ^f   Prüger, Julia ^g   Görföl, Tamás ^h   Grosche, Lena ⁱ   Bontadina, Fabio ^j   Zöphel, Ulrich ^k   Seidl, Hans Peter ^l   Cryan, Paul M ^m   Blehert, David S ^m  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d Bat Conservation Working Group   (Germany)

^e Veterinary Laboratory Agency   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^g Coordination Agency for Bat Protection in Thuringia ^*  (Germany)

^h Nature Conservation Foundation of Tolna County   (Hungary)

ⁱ Echolot GbR   (Germany)

^j SWILD Urban Ecology and Wildlife Research   (Switzerland)

^k Saxonian State Office for Environment   (Germany)

^l TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^m U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; GERMANY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HIBERNATION; HUNGARY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME FUNGUS;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EUROPE; HIBERNATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77956037973     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.100002     Document Type: Article

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