Skin Lesions in European Hibernating Bats Associated with Geomyces destructans, the Etiologic Agent of White-Nose Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Wibbelt, Gudrun ^a   Puechmaille, Sébastien J ^b,c,d   Ohlendorf, Bernd ^e   Mühldorfer, Kristin ^a   Bosch, Thijs ^f   Görföl, Tamás ^g,h   Passior, Karsten ⁱ   Kurth, Andreas ^j   Lacremans, Daniel ^k   Forget, Frédéric ^l  

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^e Federal Office for Bat Protection Saxony Anhalt   (Germany)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^h DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

ⁱ Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Southern Lower Saxony ^*  (Germany)

^j ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^k Institut de Pathogénétique   (Belgium)

^l Aves Natagora   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; GERMANY; HIBERNATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MUZZLE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN ULCER; WHITE NOISE SYNDROME; WING MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883423323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074105     Document Type: Article

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