Clonal genotype of Geomyces destructans among bats with White Nose Syndrome, New York, USA.

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Published in Emerg Infect Dis on July 01, 2011

Authors

Sunanda S Rajkumar1, Xiaojiang Li, Robert J Rudd, Joseph C Okoniewski, Jianping Xu, Sudha Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chaturvedi

Author Affiliations

1: New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.

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