Free-ranging little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) heal from wing damage associated with white-nose syndrome

EcoHealth

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 154-162

  Fuller, Nathan W ^a   Reichard, Jonathan D ^a   Nabhan, Morgan L ^a   Fellows, Spenser R ^a   Pepin, Lesley C ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Little brown bat; Myotis lucifugus; White nose syndrome; Wing damage; Wing membrane healing; WNS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; CONVALESCENCE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HIBERNATION; INJURY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEASON; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; NEW ENGLAND; PREGNANCY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEASONS; SYNDROME; WING; WOUND HEALING;

MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS;

EID: 84860215616     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-011-0705-y     Document Type: Article

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