New building, old parasite: Mesostigmatid mites - An ever-present threat to barrier rodent facilities

ILAR Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 303-309

  Watson, Julie ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology ^*  (United States)

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

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laelaps echidnina; Mice; Ornithonyssus bacoti; Parasite; Rats; Rodent; Spiny rat mite; Tropical rat mite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MITE; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RODENT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICE; MITES; RATS; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 58149348745     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.49.3.303     Document Type: Review

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