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Quarantine
Services are required in order to bring any rodents to
Harvard that are not obtained from an approved vendor. Each
importation from colleagues or other academic institutions
is a potential threat to the microbiological status of our
colonies.
The risks of assuming
clean health status in imported animals include the following:
- Variable tolerance
for and appreciation of the significance of enzootic infections
in other institutions
- Damage to shipping
containers during transport and exposure to other shipments
during transport
- Accidents during
packing of rodents at origin
- Variable methods
of exposure of sentinel animals to colony animals in supplier
health monitoring programs
- Variable (low)
ratio of sentinels to colony animals at origin
- Variable frequency/infrequency
of health monitoring
- Variability
in health panels in routine use at other institutions
- Miscommunication
or misalignment of the actual animals shipped and the room
or the health status of the room of origin
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