ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2019
Effectiveness of Various Floor Contamination Control Methods in Reducing Environmental Organic Load and Maintaining Colony Health in Rodent Facilities.
Article in Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparison of Floor Cleaning and Disinfection Processes in a Research Animal Facility.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Floor contamination control practices in rodent housing facilities commonly include disposable shoe covers despite the lack of evidence for their usefulness in bioexclusion. Contamination control flooring mats are advertised as an economical and environmentally-responsible alternative to shoe covers, yet little is published regarding their efficacy in preventing the transfer of organic material and the introduction of infectious agents into facilities. We evaluated 4 floor contamination control strategies-shoe covers (ShCv), contamination control flooring (CCF), using both products concurrently (ShCv+CCF) compared with using neither-in preventing bacterial transfer and reducing organic load on facility floors and maintaining murine colony health status. According to PCR assay and culture analysis, ShCv provided the greatest reduction in bacte- rial numbers. Either ShCv, CCF, or ShCv+CCF significantly decreased ATP levels within the facility compared with those at facility entrances, with ShCv+CCF yielding the greatest reduction; however, even when neither ShCv nor CCF was used, intrafacility floor ATP levels were about half those at entrances. According to PCR analyses, no murine parasitic, viral, and bacterial pathogens excluded at the institution were detected in any floor, exhaust air dust, or sentinel samples at any time or location, regardless of the floor contamination control method in use. These findings show that floor contamination control methods help to reduce the organic load in rodent IVC facilities but do not enhance protection from environmental contamination due to murine pathogens.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.