Editorial: What is in a Name? A Proposal to Use Geomycosis Instead of White Nose Syndrome (WNS) to Describe Bat Infection Caused by Geomyces Destructans

Mycopathologia

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 231-233

  Chaturvedi, Vishnu ^a   Chaturvedi, Sudha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; EDITORIAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NOSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; MYCOSES; NOSE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

GEOMYCES;

EID: 79952992308     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-010-9385-3     Document Type: Editorial

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