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The mice are maintained in a conventional facility using
a static caging system. Rodents are permitted entry into the
facility after an 8 week quarantine period. The health status
of all the colonies are monitored monthly by exposing sentinel
cages containing Tac: (SW)fBR female mice to solied bedding.
Each holding room contains at least 2 sentinel cages (1 sentinel
per 200 resident cages). One mouse per sentinel cage is evaluated
during each testing cycles as indicated below:
There are three separate testing cycles: quarterly; semiannual;
and annual. The agents screened at each interval are as follows:
Quarterly |
SEND |
PVM |
MHV |
MVM |
| MPV-1 |
| MPV-2 |
| NS-1 |
| GDVII |
REO |
EDIM |
LCMV |
| ECTRO |
MAV-1, MAV-2 |
| MCMV |
K |
| POLY |
| HANT |
| MPUL |
| ECUN |
| CARB |
| MTLV |
| MNV |
Pooled Fecal Float |
Anal Tape Test |
Helicobacter Testing as needed |
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