Sentences with phrase «by infected bats»

He suggests that pigs picked up the virus by eating fruit from nearby trees that had been munched on by infected bats.

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This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

Cartan - Hansen described the importance of the research in determining whether the outbreak of white nose syndrome had reached southwestern Idaho (there was no evidence of it in the power plant building), and she noted that humans can spread the disease by transporting the fungus on their shoes and clothing from caves harboring infected bats.

The study cites the 1969 case of a British dockworker bitten by an unknown insect while unloading peanuts from Nigeria, and who was subsequently infected by Le Dantec virus, a relative of the virus Goldberg and his colleagues found in abundance in the bat flies they sampled.

Led by Hazel Barton, UA associate professor of biology and recognized as having one of the world's preeminent cave microbiology labs, the research points to a group of fungi related to WSN, which appears as a white, powdery substance on the muzzles, ears and wings of infected bats and gives them the appearance they've been dunked in powdered sugar.

«We were surprised to get a result that suggests that vampire bats may not be the reservoir for this retrovirus but might have been infected independently of monkeys and rats by a yet undiscovered reservoir,» says Marina Escalera, leading author of the study.

«It hits when the population is at its smallest, and by the end of winter nearly 100 percent of the bats in a cave can be infected, which helps explain why it has such large impacts,» said Kate Langwig, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the paper.

White nose syndrome, caused by a fungus, infects the mouths and noses of several bat species, including little brown bats (above).

The fungus can infect nearly every bat in a hibernating colony by the end of the winter.

The evidence for the presence of a mycelial fungus in affected areas of the infected bats was obtained when tissue samples from the Williams Hotel Mine were examined by SEM; this imaging method revealed abundant fungal growth on skin and hair shafts (Fig. 1Ci - iv).

The horses were infected with the disease by bats, which harbour the Hendra virus.

He appeared on the TLC channel, where it was shown how one of his arms had become infected after he got hit by a broken bat at a little league game he was coaching.

There are many subtypes of rabies virus (bat types, raccoon types, etc.), but any mammal is able to be infected by any variant of the rabies virus.

This St. Bernard was infected with rabies by a bat and began exhibiting the erratic and unusual behavior typical of rabies virus infection.