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Ectoparasites may serve as vectors for the white-nose syndrome fungus

BACKGROUND: Vertebrate ectoparasites frequently play a role in transmission of infectious agents. Pseudogymnoascus destructans is a psychrophilic fungus known to cause white-nose syndrome (WNS), an emerging infectious disease of bats. It is transmitted with direct contact between bats or with contam...

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Autores principales: Lučan, Radek K., Bandouchova, Hana, Bartonička, Tomáš, Pikula, Jiri, Zahradníková, Alexandra, Zukal, Jan, Martínková, Natália
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26762515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1302-2