Sentences with phrase «identify infected bats»

UV light can help identify infected bats, a new study finds.

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With the emergence of Ebola virus from bats and hantaviruses from rodents, investigators say identifying the other species infected with HAV provides novel insight into the evolution of HAV and how it spread to humans, and highlights the utility of analyzing animal reservoirs for risk assessment of emerging viruses.

(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.