Quality Assurance

Laboratory Animal Services will ...produce and supply consistently high quality viral free laboratory rodents.

To ensure our high standard of service, sentinals are maintained in the facility and monitored for health status. In addition, rodents are monitored for genetic authenticity by the Evolutionary Biology Unit - Genetic Monitoring Services. Laboratory Animal Services undertakes comprehensive quality assurance health checks on all its rodent populations. Both the Medical School rodent experimental areas and the SPF production facility at the Waite Campus are tested for most of the organisms listed below.

• Mouse (Virology, Bacteriology, Parasitology)
• Rat (Virology, Bacteriology, Parasitology)

Copies of the complete test result are available by contacting our Office Manager. Testing is conducted on a regular monthly schedule throughout the year.

Health Monitoring Results

• Waite (Rat-Pathology, Rat-Serology, Mouse-Pathology, Mouse-Serology)
• Medical School (Contact the Office Manager for results)

Genetic Monitoring Results

• Rat
• Mice

Mouse QA

VIRAL INFECTIONS
Mouse Hepatitis Virus
Parvovirus
Rotavirus (EDIM)
Murine Cytomegalovirus
TMEV
Pneumonia Virus of Mice
Sendai virus
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
Ectromelia virus
Reovirus type 3
Mouse Adenovirus (K87 & FL1)
Polyoma virus
Hantaan virus

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
CAR Bacillus
Clos. piliformis (Tyzerr's)
M.Pulmonis
Staphylococcus aureus
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Citrobacter freundii
Corynebacterium kutscheri
Streptobacillus moniloformis
b-haemolytic streptococci
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Salmonella spp
Pseudomomas aeruginosa
Haemophilus spp
Other organisms ass'd with lesions

PARASITOLOGICAL INFECTIONS
E. cuniculi
Arthropods
Gastrointestinal helminths
Giardia spp
Entamoeba muris
Other flagellates
Eimieria spp
Klosiella spp
Toxoplasma gondii
Spironucleus spp

Rat QA

VIRAL INFECTIONS
RCV/SDAV
Parvovirus
TMEV
Pneumonia Virus of Mice
Sendai virus
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
Reovirus type 3
Hantaan virus

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
CAR Bacillus
Clos. piliformis (Tyzerr's)
M.Pulmonis
Staphylococcus aureus
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Citrobacter freundii
Corynebacterium kutscheri
Streptobacillus moniloformis
b-haemolytic streptococci
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Salmonella spp
Pseudomomas aeruginosa
Haemophilus spp
Other organisms ass'd with lesions

PARASITOLOGICAL INFECTIONS
E. cuniculi
Arthropods
Gastrointestinal helminths
Giardia spp
Entamoeba muris
Other flagellates
Eimieria spp
Klosiella spp
Toxoplasma gondii
Spironucleus spp