A serological survey to evaluate contemporary prevalence of viral agents and Mycoplasma pulmonis in laboratory mice and rats in western Europe

Lab Animal

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 161-165

  Mähler, Michael ^a   Köhl, Wiebke ^a  

^a Biomedical Diagnostics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PREVALENCE; RAT; RODENT DISEASE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIRUS DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KILHAM RAT VIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MURINE NOROVIRUS; MUS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NOROVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 65349118782     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0509-161     Document Type: Article

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