Large-scale rodent production methods make vendor barrier rooms unlikely to have persistent low-prevalence parvoviral infections

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 37-42

  Shek, William R ^a   Pritchett, Kathleen R ^a   Clifford, Charles B ^a   White, William J ^a  

^a CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; RAT; RODENT CONTROL; TECHNIQUE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CONTRACT SERVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RODENT DISEASES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

ANIMALIA; PARVOVIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 22844446059     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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