Rodent Quarantine Programs: Purpose, Principles, and Practice

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 438-446

  Rehg, Jerold E ^a   Toth, Linda A ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSING; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; QUARANTINE; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 0031771526     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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