Table 1. Bats examined for white-nose syndrome and Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection in Czech hibernacula (Europe).
Species | Screened | Biopsied | Histo+ | WNS prevalence (%) | St. error |
Myotis myotis a | 67 | 56 | 37 | 55.22 | 6.08 |
Myotis daubentoniib | 25 | 13 | 4 | 16.00 | 5.76 |
Myotis bechsteiniib | 21 | 7 | 2 | 9.52 | 6.78 |
Myotis nattererib | 20 | 8 | 3 | 15.00 | 7.10 |
Myotis brandtiib | 17 | 1 | 1 | 5.88 | 8.23 |
Myotis alcathoeb | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15.94 |
Myotis emarginatusb | 39 | 7 | 5 | 12.82 | 5.35 |
Rhinolophus hipposiderosb | 28 | 5 | 1 | 3.57 | 5.18 |
Eptesicus nilssoniib | 4 | 1 | 1 | 25.00 | 26.89 |
Plecotus auritusc | 23 | 11 | 5 | 21.73 | 8.60 |
Barbastella barbastellusc | 17 | 3 | 3 | 17.64 | 8.24 |
Plecotus austriacus | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32.22 |
Eptesicus serotinus | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39.61 |
Pipistrellus pipistrellus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48.47 |
Myotis dasycnemeb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 48.47 |
Total | 276 | 123 | 63 | 22.82 | 2.53 |
= species reported positive for WNS fungus prior to 2012, b = species recognised as positive in 2012, c = bat species recognised as positive in 2013.
Screened = numbers of bats captured and examined using UV light trans-illumination to detect WNS lesions, biopsied = numbers of bats biopsied due to WNS-suspected skin lesions viewed under UV light, histo+ = specimens positive for WNS diagnostic features under histopathological examination (i.e. cupping erosions and fungal invasion of dermis), WNS prevalence = percentage of bats positive on histopathology out of the total number screened.