Bat white-nose syndrome in North America

Microbe

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 267-273

  Blehert, David S ^a   Lorch, Jeffrey M ^b   Ballmann, Anne E ^a   Cryan, Paul M ^c   Meteyer, Carol U ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959986153     PISSN: 15587452     EISSN: 15587460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.6.267.1     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Blehert, D. S., A. C. Hicks, M. Behr, C. U. Meteyer, B. M. Berlowski-Zier, E. L. Buckles, J. T. H. Coleman, S. R. Darling, A. Gargas, R. Niver, J. C. Okoniewski, R. J. Rudd, and W. B. Stone. 2009. Bat white-nose syndrome: an emerging fungal pathogen? Science 323:227.
2. Casadevall, A. 2005. Fungal virulence, vertebrate endothermy, and dinosaur extinction: Is there a connection? Fungal Genet. Biol. 42:98-106.
3. Cryan, P. M., C. U. Meteyer, D. S. Blehert, and J. G. Boyles. 2010. Wing pathology of white-nose syndrome in bats suggests life-threatening disruption of physiology. BMC Biol. 8:135.
4. Desprez-Loustau, M-L., C. Robin, M. Buee, R. Courtecuisse, J. Garbaye, F. Suffert, I. Sache, and D. M. Rizzo. 2007. The fungal dimension of biological invasions. Trends Ecol. Evol. 22:472-480.
5. Frick, W. F., J. F. Pollock, A. C. Hicks, K. E. Langwig, D. S. Reynolds, G. G. Turner, C. M. Butchkoski, and T. H. Kunz. 2010. An emerging disease causes regional population collapse of a common North American bat species. Science 329:679-682.
6. Gargas, A., M. T. Trest, M. Christensen, T. J. Volk, and D. S. Blehert. 2009. Geomyces destructans sp. nov. associated with bat white-nose syndrome. Mycotaxon 108:147-154.
7. Kunz, T. H. and M. B. Fenton (ed.). 2003. Batecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
8. Lindner, D. L., A. Gargas, J. M. Lorch, M. T. Banik, J. Glaeser, T. H. Kunz, and D. S. Blehert. 2010. DNA-based detection of the fungal pathogen Geomyces destructans in soil from bat hibernation sites. Mycologia 103:241-246.
9. Meteyer, C. U., E. L. Buckles, D. S. Blehert, A. C Hicks, D. E. Green, V. Shearn-Bochsler, N. J. Thomas, A. Gargas, and M. J. Behr. 2009. Pathology criteria for confirming white-nose syndrome in bats. J. Vet. Diag. Invest. 21:411-414.
10. Wibbelt, G., A. Kurth, D. Hellmann, M. Weishaar, A. Barlow, M. Veith, J. Prü Ger, T. Gorfol, T. Grosche, F. Bontadina, U. Zophel, H.-P. Seidl, P. M. Cryan, and D. S. Blehert. 2010. White-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) in bats, Europe. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 16:1237-1242.