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. 2014 May 12;9(5):e97224. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097224

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
a

 =  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.