Management of the panzootic white-nose syndrome through culling of bats;Manejo del Síndrome de Nariz Blanca Panzoótico Mediante Selección de Murciélagos

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 189-194

  Hallam, Thomas G ^a   Mccracken, Gary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Dispersal of fungus; Geomyces destructans; Metapopulations

Indexed keywords

BAT; CULLING; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HIBERNATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; METAPOPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DERMATOMYCOSIS; EPIDEMIC; HIBERNATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIBERNATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; GEOMYCES;

EID: 78751657900     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01603.x     Document Type: Article

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