Natural Pathogens in 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 var…