Increasing incidence of geomyces destructans fungus in bats from the Czech Republic and Slovakia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Martínková, Natália ^a,b   Bačkor, Peter ^c   Bartonička, Tomáš ^b   Blažková, Pavla ^d,e   Červený, Jaroslav ^f   Falteisek, Lukáš ^g   Gaisler, Jiří ^b   Hanzal, Vladimír ^d   Horáček, Daniel ^h   Hubálek, Zdeněk ^a   Jahelková, Helena ^g   Kolařík, Miroslav ^g   Korytár, L'uboš ⁱ   Kubátová, Alena ^g   Lehotská, Blanka ^j   Lehotský, Roman ^k   Lučan, Radek K ^g   Májek, Ondřej ^b   Matějů, Jan ^d,g   Řehák, Zdeněk ^b   Šafář, Jiří ^l   Tájek, Přemysl ^d   Tkadlec, Emil ^a,m   Uhrin, Marcel ⁿ   Wagner, Josef ^o   Weinfurtová, Dita ^g   Zima, Jan ^a   Zukal, Jan ^a,b   Horáček, Ivan ^g   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c MATEJ BEL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^d Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^f CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h Sametová ^*  (Czech Republic)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^j Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^k Landscape Conservators   (Slovakia)

^l Agency of Nature Conservation and Landsape Protection of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

^m PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

ⁿ P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^o Czech Speleological Society   (Czech Republic)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; MYCOSIS; MYOTIS MYOTIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SLOVAKIA; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; WINTER; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FUNGI; GEOMYCES; MYOTIS MYOTIS;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SLOVAKIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78149475424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013853     Document Type: Article

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