Reliability of soiled bedding transfer for detection of mouse parvovirus and mouse hepatitis virus

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-96

  Smith, Peter C ^a   Nucifora, Michelle ^a   Reuter, Jon D ^a   Compton, Susan R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS; RODENT DISEASES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33847333097     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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