ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2020
Adoption of Exhaust Air Dust Testing in SPF Rodent Facilities.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Evaluation of Direct Colony Sampling Compared with Sentinel-Free Soiled Bedding Testing for Murine Quarantine Programs.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025Article
- Rodent Pathogen Detection via Testing of Soiled Nesting Material.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025Article
- Improved Detection of Murine Pathogens Using Sentinel-Free Media Compared to Live Animal Sampling.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Sentinel-Free Soiled Bedding as a Replacement for Direct Sampling in PCR Detection of Rodent Pathogens during Quarantine.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025Article
- Effective Eradication of Mouse Norovirus and Helicobacter spp. in Laboratory Mice (Mus musculus) via Iodine Immersion and Cross-Fostering Technique.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2025Article
- A survey on the implementation of environmental health monitoring in mouse facilities in German-speaking countries.PloS one · 2025Article
- Comparison of Rodent Infectious Agent Detection by Exhaust Dust Testing and Traditional Sentinel Testing Using Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2024Article
- A Cross-sectional Survey on Rodent Environmental Health Monitoring Practices: Benchmarking, Associations, and Barriers.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2023Article
- Microbiota and environmental health monitoring of mouse colonies by metagenomic shotgun sequencing.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Article
- Confirmation of Pathogen 'Burnout' in Mouse Colonies with Previous Evidence of Infection with Parvovirus and Rotavirus.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Single-tube Multiplex Nested PCR System for Efficient Detection of Pathogenic Microorganisms in SPF Rodents.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Using Filter Media and Soiled Bedding in Disposable Individually Ventilated Cages as a Refinement to Specific Pathogen-free Mouse Health Monitoring Programs.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Using Sterile Flocked Swabs as an Alternative Method for Rodent Health Monitoring.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Health Monitoring of Laboratory Rodent Colonies-Talking about (R)evolution.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- PCR Testing of Media Placed in Soiled Bedding as a Method for Mouse Colony Health Surveillance.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2021Article
- Evaluation of In-cage Filter Paper as a Replacement for Sentinel Mice in the Detection of Murine Pathogens.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2021Article
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Abstract
Reliable detection of unwanted microbial agents is essential for meaningful health monitoring in laboratory animal facilities. Most rodents at our institution are housed in IVC rack systems to minimize aerogenic transmission of infectious agents between cages. The most commonly used rodent health monitoring systems expose live sentinel rodents to soiled bedding collected from other rodent cages on IVC racks and subsequently test these soiled-bedding sentinels for evidence of infection with excluded agents. However, infectious agents might go undetected when using this health surveillance method, due to inefficient organism shedding or transmission failure. In 2016, our institution switched the health monitoring methodology for the majority of our SPF rodent colonies to real-time PCR testing of environmental samples collected from the exhaust plenums of IVC racks. Here we describe our rationale for this conversion, describe some interesting health monitoring cases that arose soon after the conversion, and discuss a potential problem with the conversion-residual nucleic acids. We compared cost and implementation effort associated with 2 sampling methods, sticky swabs and in-line collection media. We also compared the ability of these 2 sampling methods to detect 2 prevalent microbes in our facilities,
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