Bacteria isolated from bats inhibit the growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hoyt, Joseph R ^a   Cheng, Tina L ^a   Langwig, Kate E ^a   Hee, Mallory M ^a   Frick, Winifred F ^a   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BAT; CHEMOTAXIS; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS ABIETANIPHILA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SPHINGOMONAS; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIBERNATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; VETERINARY;

AMPHIBIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CROTALUS; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS; PSEUDOMONAS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHEMOTAXIS; CHIROPTERA; HIBERNATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOTA; MYCOSES; PSEUDOMONAS; SKIN;

EID: 84928911460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121329     Document Type: Article

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