Natural Pathogens of Laboratory Animals: Their Effects on Research

An essential resource for everyone working with laboratory animals. Informs laboratory animal veterinarians, animal caretakers, and research scientists, and others, how natural pathogens of laboratory animals can alter host physiology and compromise the validity of research findings. Provides descriptions of housing systems for pathogen exclusion or containment, and approaches to pathogen surveillance. Includes information on the most common natural pathogens found in a wide variety of laboratory animals. This title is published by the American Society for Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.