J 2017

White-nose syndrome pathology grading in Nearctic and Palearctic bats

PIKULA, J., S.K. AMELON, H. BANDOUCHOVA, Tomáš BARTONIČKA, Hana BERKOVÁ et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

White-nose syndrome pathology grading in Nearctic and Palearctic bats

Autoři

PIKULA, J., S.K. AMELON, H. BANDOUCHOVA, Tomáš BARTONIČKA, Hana BERKOVÁ, J. BRICHTA, S. HOOPER, T. KOKUREWICZ, M. KOLARIK, B. KOLLNER, V. KOVACOVA, P. LINHART, V. PIACEK, G.G. TURNER, Jan ZUKAL a Natália MARTÍNKOVÁ

Vydání

Plos one, San Francisco, Public Library of Science, 2017, 1932-6203

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.766

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000406768200008

Klíčová slova anglicky

PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS-DESTRUCTANS; GEOMYCES-DESTRUCTANS; MYOTIS-LUCIFUGUS; INFECTION; MORTALITY; SUGGESTS; WINGS

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 17. 4. 2020 19:40, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

While white-nose syndrome (WNS) has decimated hibernating bat populations in the Nearctic, species from the Palearctic appear to cope better with the fungal skin infection causing WNS. This has encouraged multiple hypotheses on the mechanisms leading to differential survival of species exposed to the same pathogen. To facilitate intercontinental comparisons, we proposed a novel pathogenesis-based grading scheme consistent with WNS diagnosis histopathology criteria. UV light-guided collection was used to obtain single biopsies from Nearctic and Palearctic bat wing membranes non-lethally. The proposed scheme scores eleven grades associated with WNS on histopathology. Given weights reflective of grade severity, the sum of findings from an individual results in weighted cumulative WNS pathology score. The probability of finding fungal skin colonisation and single, multiple or confluent cupping erosions increased with increase in Pseudogymnoascus destructans load. Increasing fungal load mimicked progression of skin infection from epidermal surface colonisation to deep dermal invasion. Similarly, the number of UV-fluorescent lesions increased with increasing weighted cumulative WNS pathology score, demonstrating congruence between WNS-associated tissue damage and extent of UV fluorescence. In a case report, we demonstrated that UV-fluorescence disappears within two weeks of euthermy. Change in fluorescence was coupled with a reduction in weighted cumulative WNS pathology score, whereby both methods lost diagnostic utility. While weighted cumulative WNS pathology scores were greater in the Nearctic than Palearctic, values for Nearctic bats were within the range of those for Palearctic species. Accumulation of wing damage probably influences mortality in affected bats, as demonstrated by a fatal case of Myotis daubentonii with natural WNS infection and healing in Myotis myotis. The proposed semi-quantitative pathology score provided good agreement between experienced raters, showing it to be a powerful and widely applicable tool for defining WNS severity. A

Návaznosti

GAP506/12/1064, projekt VaV
Název: Adaptace netopýrů na plísňové onemocnění geomykózu
Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Adaptace netopýrů na plísňové onemocnění geomykózou
LQ1601, projekt VaV
Název: CEITEC 2020 (Akronym: CEITEC2020)
Investor: Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR, CEITEC 2020