ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, Alexandra, Veronika KOVACOVA, Natália MARTÍNKOVÁ, Maria V ORLOVA, Oleg L ORLOV, Vladimir PIACEK, Jan ZUKAL and Jiří PIKULA. Historic and geographic surveillance of Pseudogymnoascus destructans possible from collections of bat parasites. TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES. Hoboken, NJ USA: Wiley, 2018, vol. 65, No 2, p. 303-308. ISSN 1865-1674. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12773.
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Original name Historic and geographic surveillance of Pseudogymnoascus destructans possible from collections of bat parasites
Authors ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, Alexandra (203 Czech Republic), Veronika KOVACOVA (203 Czech Republic), Natália MARTÍNKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Maria V ORLOVA (643 Russian Federation), Oleg L ORLOV (643 Russian Federation), Vladimir PIACEK (203 Czech Republic), Jan ZUKAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jiří PIKULA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor).
Edition TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES, Hoboken, NJ USA, Wiley, 2018, 1865-1674.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 3.554
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/18:00102182
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12773
UT WoS 000426530100010
Keywords in English Chiroptera; ectoparasite; Eurasia; fungal infection; Russia; white-nose syndrome
Tags NZ, rivok
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Abstract
Specimens archived in wet collections represent valuable material for scientific research. Here, we show that bat fly (Diptera, Nycteribiidae) samples contain DNA of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, a fungus pathogenic to bats. Using dual-probe quantitative PCR, we detected P. destructans DNA on bat flies collected in the Samara, Sverdlovsk and Irkutsk regions of Russia between 2005 and 2017. Fungal load was significantly lower on bat flies from wet collections than on freshly collected mites in the Czech Republic. The bat pathogen was present in the Samara region (European part of Russia) in 2005, that is, a year before recognition of white-nose syndrome in North America. As Samara and Irkutsk regions were identified as new positive locations of P. destructans, our data expand the known geographic distribution of P. destructans. We conclude that ethanol-stored ectoparasites can be used to identify the presence of pathogens in historic bat populations and understudied geographical regions.
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