Applying a test medium for topical white-nose syndrome vaccines to a bat house

Detailed Description
USGS researchers and partners are working on topical white-nose syndrome vaccines for bats. So far, they have applied topical vaccine to individual hand-captured bats, but the ultimate goal is to develop a method to spray the vaccine on structures bats use, like bat houses, to minimize disruption to bats and apply the vaccine more efficiently. This year, they have been testing the potential delivery medium, which doesn’t contain the vaccine yet, but contains a biomarker that will help scientists assess uptake by bats and whether it can work for the vaccine. This photo shows a researcher applying a potential delivery medium to a bat house.
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