White-nose syndrome is caused by the fungus Geomyces destructans and is responsible for the deaths of >1,000,000 bats since 2006. This disease and fungus had been restricted to the northeastern United States. We detected this fungus in a bat in France and assessed the implications of this finding.

Background: Emerging infectious diseases in wildlife are an increasing threat to global biodiversity. White-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats is one of the most recently emerged infectious diseases in North America, causing massive declines in eastern bat populations. In the Northeast, winter behavior of bats during the hibernation period, such as flying during the day or in cold weather, has been at...

During 2015, a new basal rot disease was observed on potted plants of Strelitzia reginae in an ornamental nursery located in eastern Sicily. Isolations from symptomatic parts of these diseased plants consistently yielded cylindrocarpon-like isolates. Multigene analyses of the partial gene regions of 28S large subunit nrDNA, β-tubulin, histone H3, translation elongation factor 1-alpha, internal ...

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Endophytic fungi are promising subjects for study as agents increasing plant resistance. They have a wide distribution area, diverse morphology and able to adapt stressful environmental conditions. We carried out studies on the effect of different concentrations copper chromium growth endophytic Fusarium equiseti Cylindrocarpon magnusianum. The results showed that these micromycetes high conten...

As this fluke is one of the rarer parasites inhabiting the intestine of man, a description of it might be of in tersest. Reviewing the literature on the subject at my disposal, I find that only two cases have been reported from Assam one by Dr. Sinclair of Selangor in 1889 and the other by Dr. Giles. The parasite seems to be fairly common in China. Case.?Convict Junab Ali was received from the ...