Widespread Bat White-Nose Syndrome Fungus, Northeastern China.

Joseph R Hoyt,Winifred F Frick,Katy L Parise,Guanjun Lu,Tinglei Jiang,A Marm Kilpatrick,Keping Sun,Jiang Feng,Kate E Langwig,Jeffrey T Foster,Shubao Yang

doi:10.3201/eid2201.151314

Abstract

Widespread Bat White-Nose Syndrome Fungus, Northeastern China.

Highlights

To the Editor: Emerging infectious diseases have caused catastrophic declines in wildlife populations, and the introductions of many pathogen have been linked to increases in global trade and travel [1]
DNA was extracted from samples by using a modified QIAGEN DNeasy blood and tissue kit (QIAGEN, Valencia, CA, USA) and tested in duplicate for the presence of P. destructans with a quantitative real-time PCR [6,7]
P. destructans was widely distributed across the study region with positive samples obtained from cave surfaces at 9 of 12 sites and from bats at 2 of the 9 sites where bats were sampled (Figure, panel A)

Summary

Introduction

To the Editor: Emerging infectious diseases have caused catastrophic declines in wildlife populations, and the introductions of many pathogen have been linked to increases in global trade and travel [1]. Bats with symptoms of white-nose syndrome (WNS) were first detected in the United States in 2006, and the disease has subsequently caused precipitous declines in temperate bat populations across eastern North America [3,4]. In the summer of 2014 and winter of 2015, we collected 385 samples from hibernacula surfaces at 12 sites in 3 provinces and 1 municipality (Figure, panel A) and 215 samples

Results

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