Mousepox detected in a research facility: Case report and failure of mouse antibody production testing to identify Ectromelia virus in contaminated mouse serum

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-186

  Labelle, Philippe ^a   Hahn, Nina E ^b   Fraser, Jenelle K ^a   Kendall, Lonnie V ^a   Ziman, Melanie ^a   James, Edward ^b   Shastri, Nilabh ^b   Griffey, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL INCLUSION; ECTROMELIA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LIVER NECROSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; MOUSEPOX; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION; RODENT DISEASE; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECTROMELIA VIRUS; ECTROMELIA, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RODENT DISEASES; VACCINATION;

EID: 65549129970     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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