Health status of laboratory rats indicates its suitability for the researches. They are prone to develop viral infections of subclinical nature caused by parvoviruses, which affects the research results adversely; Hence Implementation of health monitoring protocol is essential at the level of breeding colony itself. This study was intended to develop rapid and sensitive fecal-PCR assays to detect infections of multiple species of Parvoviruses affecting rats namely, Rat Minute Virus, Toolan’s Parvo Virus, Rat Parvo Virus and Kilham’s Rat Virus as an alternate approach to serology based health monitoring in a lab animal breeding unit. |
