Natural Pathogens of Laboratory Animals

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.