Distribution and environmental persistence of the causative agent of white-nose syndrome, geomyces destructans, in bat hibernacula of the eastern United States

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1293-1301

  Lorch, Jeffrey M ^a   Muller, Laura K ^b   Russell, Robin E ^b   O'Connor, Michael ^c   Lindner, Daniel L ^d   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 USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSATIVE AGENTS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMERGING DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERSISTENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; EXOTIC SPECIES; GEOMYCES; REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY; SEDIMENT SAMPLES;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

FUNGAL DNA;

BAT; CAVE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HIBERNATION; MINE; PERSISTENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874691295     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02939-12     Document Type: Article

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