University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Feb;16(2):290-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1602.091391.
White-nose syndrome is caused by the fungus Geomyces destructans and is responsible for the deaths of >1,000,000 bats since 2006. This disease and fungus had been restricted to the northeastern United States. We detected this fungus in a bat in France and assessed the implications of this finding.
自 2006 年以来,由真菌 Geomyces destructans 引起的白鼻综合征已导致超过 100 万只蝙蝠死亡。这种疾病和真菌此前仅局限于美国东北部。我们在法国的一只蝙蝠身上检测到了这种真菌,并评估了这一发现的意义。