Serological Survey of Laboratory Rodents for Infection With Sendai Virus, Mouse Hepatitis Virus, Reovirus Type 3 and Mouse Adenovirus

Serological survey of virus infection among wild house mice (Mus domesticus) in the UK

“…Unfortunately, viral profiles at capture were not known for the captive, wild-caught mice and it was not possible to estimate the likelihood of acquiring new infection in captivity in these animals. There were intriguing similarities to results obtained in other countries, which also found relatively high prevalence of MCMV and MHV, but low prevalence of LCMV and Sendai virus (Suzuki et al 1982, Nakagawa et al 1984, Moro et al 1999. This may be due to similarity in the transmission dynamics and pathogenicity of viruses in different countries despite differing ecological factors, resulting in similar viral prevalence when confounding effects are reduced through averaging of results.…”

“…Early studies preceding the advent of serological techniques concentrated on laboratory mouse populations (Poiley 1970, Skinner & Knight 1971, Carthew & Verstraete 1978, Suzuki et al 1982. Following the wide adoption of serological techniques, the serological prevalence of selected viruses has been published for a very limited number of wild or laboratory-strain M. domesticus populations around the world (Van Vuuren et al 1990, Morita et al 1991b, McCaughey et al 1996.…”

Ten Years-long Survey on Pathogen Status of Mouse and Rat Breeding Colonies

“…Pathogen status of laboratory mice and rats in this country has been extensively examined these 10 years by several investigators [3,4,14,16] Swab samples of the external nares and trachea including pharyngo-larynx area were cultured on blood agar, DHL agar (Eiken Co., Tokyo) and PPLO agar for detection of P. pneumotropica [11], B. bronchi septica [9] and M. pulmonis [12], respectively.…”

Detection of Antibodies to Sendai Virus in Mouse Sera by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa)

“…Natural infection with Sendai virus occurs in a variety of laboratory rodents (1)(2)(3)(4). Sendai virus is the agent of the most important respiratory disease in mice.…”