Concentration and emission of airborne contaminants in a laboratory animal facility housing rabbits

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 39-48

  Ooms, Tara G ^a   Artwohl, James E ^b   Conroy, Lorraine M ^b   Schoonover, Todd M ^b   Fortman, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENDOTOXIN; SALIVA PROTEIN;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; RABBIT;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RABBITS; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 41849145259     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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