Antifungal testing and high-throughput screening of compound library against Geomyces destructans, the etiologic agent of geomycosis (WNS) in bats.

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Published in PLoS One on March 02, 2011

Authors

Sudha Chaturvedi1, Sunanda S Rajkumar, Xiaojiang Li, Gregory J Hurteau, Michael Shtutman, Vishnu Chaturvedi

Author Affiliations

1: Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America.

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