Prevalence of viral, bacterial and parasitological diseases in rats and mice used in research environments in Australasia over a 5-y period

Lab Animal

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 341-350

  McInnes, Elizabeth F ^a   Rasmussen, Lorna ^b   Fung, Peony ^a   Auld, Amanda M ^a   Alvarez, Luisana ^a   Lawrence, David A ^a   Quinn, Morgan E ^a   Utteridge, Tammy D ^a   Del Fierro, Gloria M ^b   Vassallo, Bianca A ^b   Stevenson, Robert ^a  

^a Cerberus Sciences   (Australia)

^b Cerberus Sciences   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BLOOD; ENTEROBIUS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FECES; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MURINE PNEUMONIA VIRUS; NOROVIRUS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RAT; RETORTAMONADIDAE; RODENT DISEASE; TRICHOMONADIDA; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AUSTRALASIA; ENTEROBIUS; FECES; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; INFECTION; MICE; MURINE PNEUMONIA VIRUS; NOROVIRUS; PREVALENCE; RATS; RETORTAMONADIDAE; RODENT DISEASES; TRICHOMONADIDA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHILOMASTIX; ECTROMELIA VIRUS; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; MURINE PNEUMONIA VIRUS; MUS; NOROVIRUS; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); PROTOZOA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SYPHACIA; TRICHOMONADIDA;

EID: 80054873286     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban1111-341     Document Type: Article

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