Comprehensive veterinary medical treatment includes disease prevention. Preventive medicine improves the research value of animals by keeping them healthy and reducing non-protocol sources. Make a note of sickness and infection variance in your bookmark. These programs include rules, methods, and practices for separating animals by species, source, and health condition.

Stabilization and Separation : Quarantine is the temporary isolation of freshly acquired animals from those already in the institution. A good quarantine reduces the risk of diseases entering an established colony. The veterinary medical personnel should have processes for assessing the health and pathogen status of freshly received animals that comply with zoometric rules. Nonhuman primates should be quarantined effectively to reduce human exposure to zoometric illnesses. Fluvial and mycobacterium infections in nonhuman monkeys have demanded management recommendations .

A veterinarian should determine the length of quarantine, the potential risks to personnel and animals within the colony, whether therapy is required before animals are released from quarantine, and whether cesarean reservation or embryo transfer is required free rodents of specific pathogens. If the vendor or provider’s data is current and complete, the possibility for disease exposure during the transportation is recognized. When quarantine is necessary, animals from one cargo should be kept isolated from animals from other shipments . In addition to the kind and duration of transportation, species involved and the planned use of animals will influence stabilization time.

Notes on your bookmark : And isolators are possible substitutes. In some instances, separate housing species in the same space is permissible when both species have identical pathogen status and behavior. Some animals have latent or subclinical illnesses that might cause disease if spread to another species. Here are a few examples to help determine the necessity for species-specific housing:

Nonhuman primates fr om the New World , Old World Africa, and Old World Asia should be confined separately. Examples of subclinical infections in African animals include simian’s hemorrhagic fever and simian’s immunodeficien cy virus. Even though they are from the same area, certain species need to be kept separately. For example, squirrel monkeys may carry Herpes virus tamarinds, infecting and killing owl monkeys and certain marmosets and tamarins.

Disease Prevention, Control, and Diagnosis : A person educated to spot indications of disease, injury, or odd behavior should inspect all animals. In other cases, such as when animals are kept in substantial outside enclosures, daily surveillance of each animal is not feasible. It is critical to have effective illness monitoring and diagnostic tools. Unexpected animal deaths, sickness, suffering, or other abnormalities should be reported immediately.

Add a note to your bookmark for prompt veterinarian treatment. Animals with infectious diseases should be separated from healthy animals. A complete room of animals exposed to an infecti ous agent should be maintained together for a diagnosis, treatment, and containment.