Evaluation of a forced-air-ventilated micro-isolation system for protection of mice against Pasteurella pneumotropica

Experimental Animals

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-151

  Hasegawa, Masakazu ^a   Kagiyama, Soichiro ^b   Tajima, Masaru ^b   Yoshida, Kazuya ^a   Minami, Yayoi ^b   Kurosawa, Tsutomu ^b  

^a M   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forced air ventilation; Laboratory mice; Pasteurella pneumotropica; Polymerase chain reaction; Prevention of cross contamination

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA PNEUMOTROPICA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; EVALUATION; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURELLA; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PASTEURELLA PNEUMOTROPICA;

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PASTEURELLA; VENTILATION;

EID: 0038117840     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.52.145     Document Type: Article

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