Spontaneous Diseases and Their Control in Laboratory Animals
Year: 1959
Type: article
Abstract: THE NEED for laboratory animals that are free from spontaneous or naturally occur¬ ring diseases is being recognized by research workers throughout the United States.Lab¬ oratory animals with parasitic, bacterial, and viral diseases make poor experimental animals, produce inferior biological products, and mark¬ edly increase the cost of research.Moreover, diseased animals should not be used in research, especially in radiation, nutrition, and blood studies, because the normal physiological reac¬ tions or blood counts are not obtained from them.Researchers know that the results of
DOI: 10.2307/4590404
Author: Robert T. Habermann
Language: English
Subfield: Small Animals
Field: Veterinary
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W138331610