Efficacy of visual surveys for white-nose syndrome at bat hibernacula

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Janicki, Amanda F ^a   Frick, Winifred F ^b   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^b   Parise, Katy L ^c   Foster, Jeffrey T ^c,d   McCracken, Gary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; FUNGAL DETECTION; INFECTION RATE; MYCOSIS; MYOTIS GRISESCENS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; MYOTIS SODALIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PERIMYOTIS SUBFLAVUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS INFECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSES; GEOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DERMATOMYCOSES; GEOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; LINEAR MODELS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84941243605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133390     Document Type: Article

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