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Microbiological monitoring in individually ventilated cage systems
Susan R Compton1, Felix R Homberger, Judy MacArthur Clark
1Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. susan.compton@yale.edu
Lab Animal
|October 30, 2004
Abstract:
Housing rodents in IVC racks has many advantages over conventional cages but also presents unique challenges related to health monitoring. The authors review the issues to consider in design of a sentinel program using IVC systems.
