Decontamination of a barrier facility using microisolator cages and provisional partitioning

Lab Animal

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 31-35

  Wiese, Elena ^a   Maurer, Simone ^a   Steige, Gisela ^a   Saaler Reinhardt, Sigrid ^a   Lecher, Bernd ^a   Ott, Sibylle ^b   Reifenberg, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EPIDEMIC; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HYGIENE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DECONTAMINATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYGIENE; MICE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ANIMALIA; MINUTE VIRUS OF MICE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MUS; PARVOVIRUS; SYPHACIA OBVELATA;

EID: 34250844972     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0707-31     Document Type: Article

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