FELASA recommendations for the health monitoring of mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guineapig and rabbit experimental units. Report of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) Working Group on Animal Health accepted by the FELASA Board of Management, November 1995

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-208

  Rehbinder, C ^a   Baneux, P ^a   Forbes, D ^a   Van Herck, H ^a   Nicklas, W ^a   Rugaya, Z ^a   Winkler, G ^a  

^a FELASA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; GERBIL; GUINEA PIG; HAMSTER; MONITORING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RAT; REVIEW;

EID: 0029681152     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367796780684881     Document Type: Review

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