Exclusion of Mouse Hepatitis Virus from a Filtered, Plastic Rodent Shipping Container during an in Transit Field Challenge

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 32-35

  Orcutt, Roger P ^a   Phelan, Richard S ^b   Geistfeld, James G ^b  

^a Biomedical Research Associates   (United States)

^b Taconic Farms Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HEPATITIS; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FILTRATION; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, ANIMAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0035406131     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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