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Table 2 Differences in bat communities, hibernation temperature and infection status between sites

From: White-nose syndrome detected in bats over an extensive area of Russia

Region

Locality

Number of bats

Number of species

WNS UV lesions

WNS qPCR assay

WNS histo-positivity

Median temperature (°C)

Southern Ural

Slyudorudnik mine

12

4

+

+

+

3.95

Middle Ural

Arakaevskaja cave

10

2

+

+

+

1.25

Smolinskaja cave

21

3

+

+

+

4.70

Šajtanskaja cave

25

4

+

+

1.40

Northern Ural

Dačnaja cave

1

1

3.50

Komsomolskaja cave

18

3

+

+

+

2.70

Partizanskaja cave

16

2

+

+

+

3.45

Baikal

Aja cave

2

1

N.A.

+

N.A.

N.A.

Mečta cave

31

3

+

+

+

1.00

Cave Vologodskovo

10

1

+

+

+

4.70

Far East

Primorskij Velikan cave

42

5

+

+

+

4.40

Total number of positive bats

  

78

135

48

 
  1. Apart from hibernation conditions (body surface temperature of bats), the table includes data concerning bat biodiversity and qualitative measures of Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection status