A simple device for the exposure of animals to infectious microorganisms by the airborne route

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-75

  Phillpotts, R J ^a   Brooks, T J G ^a   Cox, C S ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MOUSE; NEBULIZER; NONHUMAN; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICE; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0031050547     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268896007157     Document Type: Article

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