White-nose syndrome disease severity and a comparison of diagnostic methods

EcoHealth

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 60-71

  McGuire, Liam P ^a,b   Turner, James M ^a,c   Warnecke, Lisa ^a,c   McGregor, Glenna ^d   Bollinger, Trent K ^d   Misra, Vikram ^e   Foster, Jeffrey T ^f   Frick, Winifred F ^g   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^g   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood chemistry; Histopathology; Myotis lucifugus; Non destructive methods; PCR; Pseudogymnoascus destructans; Ultraviolet fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSES; GEOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CANADA; CHIROPTERA; DERMATOMYCOSES; GEOGRAPHY; HIBERNATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84960120463     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-016-1107-y     Document Type: Article

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