Prevalence of Enterotropic and Polytropic Mouse Hepatitis Virus in Enzootically Infected Mouse Colonies

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-54

  Homberger, Felix R ^a,c   Zhang, Linong ^d   Barthold, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUDE MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RODENT DISEASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BASE SEQUENCE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, NUDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; NUCLEOCAPSID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031989142     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Barthold, S. W. 1986. Mouse hepatitis virus: biology and epidemiology, p. 571-601. In P. N. Bhatt, R. O. Jacoby, H. C. Morse III, et al. (ed.), Viral and mycoplasmal infections of laboratory rodents. Effect on biomedical research. Academic Press, Orlando, Fla.
2. Lai, M. M. C. 1990. Coronavirus: organization, replication and expression of genome. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 44:303-333.
3. Compton, S. R., S. W. Barthold, and A. L. Smith. 1993. The cellular and molecular pathogenesis of coronaviruses. Lab. Anim. Sci. 43:15-28.
4. Homberger, F. R. 1997. Enterotropic mouse hepatitis virus. Lab. Animals 31:97-115.
5. Barthold, S. W., D. S. Beck, and A. L. Smith. 1993. Enterotropic coronavirus (mouse hepatitis virus) in mice: influence of host age and strain on infection and disease. Lab. Anim. Sci. 43:276-284.
6. National Research Council. 1991. Infectious diseases of mice and rats. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
7. Kraft, V., A. A. Deeny, H. M. Blanchet, et al. 1994. Recommendations for the health monitoring of mouse, rat, hamster, guinea pig and rabbit breeding colonies. Lab. Animals 28:1-12.
8. Homberger, F. R., A. L. Smith, and S. W. Barthold. 1991. Detection of rodent coronaviruses in tissues and cell cultures by using polymerase chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 29:2789-2793.
9. Homberger, F. R. 1995. Sequence analysis of the nucleoprotein genes of three enterotropic strains of murine coronavirus. Arch. Virol. 140:571-579.
10. Homberger, F. R. 1992. Maternally-derived passive immunity to enterotropic mouse hepatitis virus. Arch. Virol. 122:133-141.
11. Kraft, V., and B. Meyer. 1990. Seromonitoring in small laboratory animal colonies. A five year survey: 1984-1988. Z. Versuchtierk. 33:29-35.
12. Nomura, T. 1991. Breeding and microbiological control, p. 25-42, In E. Boven and B. Winograd (ed.), The nude mouse in oncology research. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fia.
13. Weir, E. C., P. N. Bhatt, S. W. Barthold, et al. 1987. Elimination of mouse hepatitis virus from a breeding colony by temporary cessation of breeding. Lab. Anim. Sci. 37:455-458.
14. Percy, D. H., and S. W. Barthold. 1993. Pathology of laboratory rodents and rabbits. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa.