Rodent & Rabbit Infectious Agents
Understanding the infectious agents that can contaminate your research animal facility allows you to develop a plan to manage or prevent an outbreak. Charles River created these technical sheets for viruses, bacteria/fungi and parasites prevalent in laboratory rodents (mice, rats, gerbils, guinea pigs and hamsters) and rabbits today and historically.
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You can learn more about the contemporary prevalence of infectious agents in laboratory mice and rats in this white paper published in Laboratory Animal.
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Viruses
- Ectromelia Virus (Mousepox)
- Filovirus (FV)
- Guinea Pig Adenovirus (GpAV, GAV)
- Guinea Pig Cytomegalovirus (GpCMV)
- Hantaviruses (Hantaan, Prospect hill, Puumala, Dobrava, Seoul, Sin Nombre, etc.)
- Lactate Dehydrogenase Elevating Virus (LDV, LDHV)
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV)
- Mouse Adenovirus (MAdV-1, MAdV-2, MAV)
- Mouse Cytomegalovirus (MCMV)
- Mouse Hepatitis Virus (MHV)
- Mouse Parvoviruses (MPV-1, MPV-2, MPV-3, MVM)
- Mouse Rotavirus (Epizootic Diarrhea of Infant Mice; EDIM)
- Mouse Thymic Virus (MTV, MTLV)
- Murine Chapparvovirus (MuCPV)
- Murine Norovirus (MNV)
- Pneumonia Virus of Mice (PVM)
- Polyoma Viruses (Polyoma Virus, K Virus [Murine Pneumotropic Virus])
- Rabbit Caliciviruses (Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus [RHDV], European Brown Hare Virus, Rabbit Calicivirus)
- Rat Parvoviruses (RPV-1, RPV-2, RMV, RV [KRV], H-1)
- Rat Polyomavirus-2 (RPyV2)
- Rat Rotavirus (Infectious Diarrhea Of Infant Rats; IDIR)
- Reovirus (REO-3)
- Sarbecoviruses (SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19)
- Sendai Virus (PI-1, SV)
- Sialodacryoadenitis Virus (RCV, SDAV)
- Simian Virus 5 (SV5, PI2, canine parainfluenza virus)
- Theiloviruses (MEV [TMEV], RTV [GDVII])
- Zika Virus (ZIKV)
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Bacteria
- Beta-Haemolytic Streptococci (BHS)
- Bordetella bronchiseptica
- Cilia-Associated Respiratory Bacillus (CAR Bacillus; CARB)
- Citrobacter rodentium (Citrobacter freundii biotype 4280)
- Clostridium piliforme (Tyzzer's disease, CPIL)
- Corynebacterium bovis
- Corynebacterium kutscheri (Pseudotuberculosis)
- Encephalitozoon cuniculi (ECUN, E. cuniculi)
- Helicobacter species
- Klebsiella species (K. oxytoca, K. pneumoniae)
- Mycoplasma pulmonis
- Pasteurella multocida
- Pasteurella pneumotropica
- Pneumocystis (P. murina, P. carinii, P. wakefieldae, P. oryctolagi)
- Proteus mirabilis
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Salmonella (S. enterica, various subspecies and serotypes)
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptobacillus moniliformis (Haverhill fever, rat bite fever)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Treponema paraluiscuniculi (Treponema cuniculi, rabbit syphilis)
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Parasites