Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7377, 2011, Pages 376-378

  Lorch, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Meteyer, Carol U ^b   Behr, Melissa J ^c   Boyles, Justin G ^d   Cryan, Paul M ^e   Hicks, Alan C ^f   Ballmann, Anne E ^b   Coleman, Jeremy T H ^g   Redell, David N ^h   Reeder, Deeann M ⁱ   Blehert, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^g US Fish & Wildlife Service Massachusetts   (United States)

^h WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

ⁱ BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COLONIZATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY RISK; PATHOGENICITY; SKIN; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FUNGUS; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; EUROPE; MYCOSES; NORTH AMERICA; NOSE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNDROME; WING;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; GEOMYCES; MAMMALIA; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS;

EID: 83555174961     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10590     Document Type: Article

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