| west nile virus antibodies in bats from new jersey and new york. | eighty-three serum samples were obtained from big brown (eptesicus fuscus), little brown (myotis lucifugus), and northern long-eared (myotis septentriotalis) bats (chiroptera: vespertilionidae), from new jersey and new york (usa) between july and october 2002. samples were analyzed for neutralizing antibodies to west nile virus (wnv) and st. louis encephalitis (sle) virus. one little brown bat and one northern long-eared bat tested positive for wnv neutralizing antibodies. no bats had antibodies ... | 2004 | 15362837 |
| white-nose syndrome and wing damage index scores among summer bats in the northeastern united states. | white-nose syndrome (wns) adversely affects millions of bats hibernating in caves of the eastern united states. beginning in 2009, the us fish and wildlife service supported use of a wing damage index (wdi) scoring system (scale of 0 to 3, or no damage to severe) to assess wing damage of bats captured during summer. based on bat captures at 459 mist net sites in pennsylvania, new york, maryland, virginia, and new jersey, usa, we questioned whether wdi scores varied by species group, date, and di ... | 2011 | 21269995 |
| recovery of little brown bats (myotis lucifugus) from natural infection with geomyces destructans, white-nose syndrome. | geomyces destructans produces the white fungal growth on the muzzle and the tacky white discoloration on wings and ears that characterize white-nose syndrome (wns) in cave-hibernating bats. to test the hypothesis that postemergent wns-infected bats recover from infection with g. destructans, 30 little brown bats (myotis lucifugus) were collected in may 2009 from a wns-affected hibernation site in new jersey. all bats were confirmed to be infected with g. destructans using a noninvasive fungal ta ... | 2011 | 21719826 |