(i) Direct smears
from bat snouts, Periodic Acid Schiff - stained tissue sections
from infected tissues, and scanning electron micrographs of
bat tissues all showed fungal structures similar to those of G. destructans (ii) G. destructans DNA was directly amplified
from infected
bat tissues (iii) Isolations of G. destructans in
cultures from infected
bat tissues showed 100 % DNA match with the fungus present in positive tissue samples (iv) RAPD patterns for all G. destructans
cultures isolated
from two sites were indistinguishable (v) The fungal isolates showed psychrophilic growth (vi) We identified in vitro proteolytic activities suggestive of known fungal pathogenic traits in G. destructans.