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Investigators wishing
to import rodents into Harvard Medical Area Animal Facilities
from sources not under care of the ARCM veterinary staff must
comply with quarantine requirements. Candidates for housing
in Specific Pathogen Free facilities animals will be temporarily
housed for an eight weeks' evaluation period in ARCM quarantine
rooms. Release from quarantine depends on the results of tests
conducted during this period. Eligibility for quarantine depends
on the health status of the animal facility at the donor institution,
the availability of quarantine space and the availability
of housing space in the destination designated in the quarantine
application. An approved Animal Experimentation Protocol is
a prerequisite for use of these facilities as is an established
financial relationship between the investigator and the ARCM.
The quarantine
process exists to ensure, to the greatest extent practicable,
that animals entering the barrier are free of excluded rodent
pathogens.
List
of Excluded Rodent Disease Agents
Quaratine
Process Description
Quarantine
Process for Animals from Foreign Sources (Outside USA)
Quarantine
Process for Animals from Domestic Sources
Animals
in Quarantine
After
Quarantine
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