White-Nose Syndrome Fungus in a 1918 Bat Specimen from France

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Campana, Michael G. ; Kurata, Naoko P. ; Foster, Jeffrey T. ; Helgen, Lauren E. ; Reeder, DeeAnn M. ; Fleischer, Robert C. ; Helgen, Kristofer M.
• Description:
  White-nose syndrome, first diagnosed in North America in 2006, causes mass deaths among bats in North America. We found the causative fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, in a 1918 sample collected in Europe, where bats have now adapted to the fungus. These results are consistent with a Eurasian origin of the pathogen.
• Subjects:
  Animals Ascomycota Chiroptera/Microbiology DNA, Fungal History, 19Th Century History, 20Th Century History, 21St Century Mycoses/History Mycoses/Microbiology Mycoses/Mortality Mycoses/Veterinary Nose Sequence Analysis, DNA Syndrome

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(9):1611-1612.
• Pubmed ID:
  28820367
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5572869
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  France ; North America
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c32788492cd4390f14ec772a27bc45904b8a238548eb283cf26c6a67f2a05e31
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47980/cdc_47980_DS1.pdf
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