A survey of rodent-borne pathogens carried by wild-caught Norway rats: A potential threat to laboratory rodent colonies

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-98

  Easterbrook, Judith D ^a   Kaplan, J B ^a   Glass, G E ^a   Watson, J ^b   Klein, S L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectoparasites; Hookworms; Parvoviruses; Pinworms; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; ECTOPARASITE; ENDOPARASITE; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; MALE; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PARVOVIRUS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REVIEW; SENDAI VIRUS; SEROLOGY; TRICHURIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BALTIMORE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALIA; CILIA-ASSOCIATED RESPIRATORY BACTERIUM; H-1 PARVOVIRUS; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; KILHAM RAT VIRUS; MOUSE POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; MURINE PNEUMONIA VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NIPPOSTRONGYLUS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS; RAT SIALODACRYOADENITIS CORONAVIRUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; RODENTOLEPIS; SENDAI VIRUS; TRICHURIS MURIS;

EID: 42249100852     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2007.06015e     Document Type: Review

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