White-nose syndrome fungus: A generalist pathogen of hibernating bats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Zukal, Jan ^a,b   Bandouchova, Hana ^c   Bartonicka, Tomas ^b   Berkova, Hana ^a   Brack, Virgil ^d   Brichta, Jiri ^c   Dolinay, Matej ^b   Jaron, Kamil S ^b   Kovacova, Veronika ^c   Kovarik, Miroslav ^e   Martínková, Natália ^a,b   Ondracek, Karel ^c   Rehak, Zdenek ^b   Turner, Gregory G ^f   Pikula, Jiri ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^d Environmental Solutions and Innovations Inc   (United States)

^e Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

^f Pennsylvania Game Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BARBASTELLA BARBASTELLUS; BAT; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPTESICUS NILSSONII; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIBERNATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; MYOTIS EMARGINATUS; MYOTIS MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLECOTUS AURITUS; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS INFECTION; RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS; SCREENING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BIODIVERSITY; CHIROPTERA; HIBERNATION; PHYLOGENY; RISK;

EID: 84901251917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097224     Document Type: Article

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