AALAS/FELASA working group on health monitoring of rodents for animal transfer

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 633-640

  Pritchett Corning, Kathleen R ^a,b,c   Prins, Jan Bas ^d   Feinstein, Ricardo ^e   Goodwin, Jeffrey ^f   Nicklas, Werner ^g   Riley, Lela ^h  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^h IDEXX RADIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL WELFARE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GERMPLASM; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND; IMMUNE STATUS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGEN CLEARANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SHIPPING; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; RAT; RODENT DISEASES; STANDARDS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 84916877058     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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