Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice Proceedings of the 1998 US/Japan Conference (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Similarly, there is at present no means for ensuring availability of testing reagents for diagnostic labs. There should be, perhaps at the ICLAS level, some objective means of comparing and evaluating adequacy and availability of testing reagents to remove this potential variable to comparability of surveillance programs from laboratory to laboratory, and from country to country.
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1994. Recommendations for the health monitoring of mouse, rat, hamster, guinea pig and rabbit breeding colonies.
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I am, of course, most familiar with the quality of animals in my own country, the United States. However, many of my comments will be applicable worldwide as biomedical research and its constituent parts, including the laboratory animals being used to generate much of the data and the journals that disseminate the results, are increasingly international activities.
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The results were surprising. Only 70% of the mouse populations and 60% of the rat populations were considered specific pathogen free (SPF)
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SCIENTISTS HAVE LITTLE APPRECIATION OF PATHOGEN STATUS Since Dr. Jacoby and I published the results of the survey of institutions in the United States on their programs for protecting mouse and rat populations
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