Inoculation of bats with European Geomyces destructans supports the novel pathogen hypothesis for the origin of white-nose syndrome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6999-7003

  Warnecke, Lisa ^a   Turner, James M ^a   Bollinger, Trent K ^b   Lorch, Jeffrey M ^c,d   Misra, Vikram ^b   Cryan, Paul M ^e   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^f   Blehert, David S ^d   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Fungal pathogen; Infectious disease; Invasive species; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; HIBERNATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DERMATOMYCOSES; EUROPE; HIBERNATION; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; NOSE; SKIN; SYNDROME; VIRULENCE;

CHIROPTERA; FUNGI; GEOMYCES; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS;

EID: 84860829059     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200374109     Document Type: Article

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