DNA-based detection of the fungal pathogen Geomyces destructans in soils from bat hibernacula

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-246

  Lindner, Daniel L ^a   Gargas, Andrea ^b   Lorch, Jeffrey M ^c   Banik, Mark T ^d   Glaeser, Jessie ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^e   Blehert, David S ^d  

^a Center for Forest Mycology Research   (United States)

^b Symbiology LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Environmental sampling; Skin infection; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

BAT; CLONE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNGAL DISEASE; LIFE CYCLE; MORBIDITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING;

NORTH AMERICA;

FUNGI; GEOMYCES;

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HIBERNATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DNA, FUNGAL; HIBERNATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955971317     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/10-262     Document Type: Article

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