Microbial contaminations of laboratory mice and rats in Taiwan from 2004 to 2007

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 381-386

  Liang, Chung Tiang ^a,b   Shih, Amy ^a   Chang, Yu Hsiu ^a   Liu, Chiung Wen ^a   Lee, Ya Tien ^a   Hsieh, Wei Chun ^a   Huang, Yuan Ling ^a   Huang, Wan Tsang ^a   Kuang, Chih Hui ^a   Lee, Kan Hung ^a   Zhuo, Yi Xing ^a   Ho, Sheng Yu ^a   Liao, Shiow Ling ^a   Chiu, Yi Ying ^a   Hsu, Chieh Ning ^a   Liang, San Chi ^a   Yu, Chun Keung ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM KUTSCHERI; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HEPATITIS VIRUS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOUSE; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PARVOVIRUS; PASTEURELLA PNEUMOTROPICA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; REOVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SENDAI VIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TAIWAN; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CARDIOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, ANIMAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PNEUMOVIRUS INFECTIONS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; TAIWAN;

ANIMALIA; KILHAM RAT VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MURINE ADENOVIRUS 1; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MURINE PNEUMONIA VIRUS; MUS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS; RAT SIALODACRYOADENITIS CORONAVIRUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SENDAI VIRUS; SYPHACIA; THEILER'S ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

EID: 69549138327     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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