Friday, April 21, 2017

Fun fact Q 11: What's new with rodent quarantine?



Like many others we have been testing our incoming rodents by PCR.   This has expedited their release from quarantine (which the researchers like) but added a few headaches for the veterinarians too, because we are finding organisms we may not have been testing for before.  For instance, we have found the following on recent imports:

  • Pasteurella pneumotropica
  • Bordetella hinzii
  • Campylobacter spp.
  • Klebsiella oxytoca
  • Pneumocystis carinii (rats)
  • Corynebacterium bovis

 If this happened at your institution, what would you do?

Answers are posted on a separate page... see sidebar Q 11 !


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