Sentences with phrase «isolated from bat»
These viruses, originally from Africa, are thought to be caught from close contact with monkeys and apes, their primary hosts, although they have also been isolated from bats that show no symptoms.
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It is based on a protein, originally isolated from the saliva of vampire bats, and the resulting drug is called Draculin.
The isolates with the strongest inhibitory properties were cultured from a bat species that has suffered lower mortality from white - nose syndrome than other species.
Hoyt isolated bacteria from the skin of four bat species and tested the isolates for their ability to inhibit the growth of the fungus.
Now the University of Malaya's Lam Kai Sit says he has clinched the case that bats are Nipah's reservoir: His team isolated virus from the island flying fox's urine and from fruit half - eaten by the bat — which means the virus is present in saliva.
So far, no one has isolated Ebola virus from any wild bat — either in the Philippines or in Africa, where the worst outbreaks have been.
(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.
A previous report described the involvement of the fungus Geomyces destructans in WNS, but an identical fungus was recently isolated in France from a bat that was evidently healthy.
Range The Townsend's big - eared bat occurs throughout the west and is distributed from the southern portion of British Columbia south along the Pacific coast to central Mexico and east into the Great Plains, with isolated populations occurring in the central and eastern United States.