NSS Journal Publishes WNS Decon Research Paper

[PYoungbaer]

The NSS' Journal of Cave and Karst Studies has just published a major research paper about the development of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife decon protocols. The paper, entitled
EVALUATION OF STRATEGIES FOR THE DECONTAMINATION OF EQUIPMENT FOR GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS, THE CAUSATIVE AGENT OF WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME (WNS) was written by
VIRGINIA SHELLEY1, SAMANTHA KAISER1, ELIZABETH SHELLEY1, TIM WILLIAMS1, MARCELO KRAMER1, KATIE HAMAN2, KEVIN KEEL2, AND HAZEL A. BARTON1,3*
and was published online and will appear in print in the April issue. You can link to it here:

http://www.caves.org/pub/journal/PDF/v75/cave-75-01-01.pdf

One of the conclusions states,

The spread of WNS along bat migration routes (Frick et al., 2010) and the lack of numerous geographic epicenters may also suggest that humanvectored transport of G. destructans may be rare. Nonetheless, until the exact mechanism of G. destructans transport and environmental survival is known, it is critical to remove the potential impact of human transport.

* Corresponding author: bartonh@uakron.edu
1 Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland
Heights, KY 41099
2UC Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Dept. Pathology, Microbiology and
Immunology, One Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616
3 Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325
V. Shelley, S. Kaiser, E. Shelley, T. Williams, M. Kramer, K. Haman, K. Keel, and H.A. Barton – Evaluation of strategies for the
decontamination of equipment for Geomyces destructans, the causative agent of White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) Journal of Cave and Karst
Studies, v. 75, no. 1, p. 1–10. DOI: 10.4311/2011LSC0249

[wyandottecaver]

interesting article

[Scott McCrea]

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