Suboptimal ability of dirty-bedding sentinels to detect Spironucleus muris in a colony of mice with genetic manipulations of the adaptive immune system

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 10-17

  Perdue, Kathy A ^a   Copeland, Michelle K ^a   Karjala, Zuzana ^b   Cheng, Lily I ^a   Ward, Jerrold M ^a   Elkins, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BED; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTESTINE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIBLING; SMEAR; SPIRONUCLEOSIS; SPIRONUCLEUS MURIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; DIPLOMONADIDA; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA; SPIRONUCLEUS MURIS;

EID: 54149096931     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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