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34 Cards in this Set
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Order |
Rodentia |
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Suborder |
Scirurognathi |
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3 major families |
Muridea cricetidae and platacanthomyidea |
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Life span |
12 to 36 months |
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Male and female weight |
Male 20 to 40 kg female 22 to 63 kg |
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Heart rate |
427 to 697 |
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Respiratory rate |
91 to 216 |
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Rectal temperature |
98.8 F |
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Daily feed consumption |
3 to 5 grams |
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Environment temperature |
75 to 77 F |
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Environment humidity |
45 to 55 % |
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Age at puberty |
6 weeks |
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Estrus cycle length |
4 to 5 days |
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Length of gestation |
19 to 21 days |
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Litter size |
7 to 11 |
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Weaning age |
18 to 21 |
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External ears open |
3 days |
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Bruce effect |
Pregnant female exposed to new male or its scent with in 4 days of breeding usually abort and return to estrus |
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Important component of nutrition |
Coprophagia |
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Protein content |
14% |
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Administration of medications |
IV IP SQ IM |
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Blood collection |
Toe nail clip tail clip lateral tail vein retroobital sinus cardiocentesis |
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May be fatal in athymic mice and immunocompromised. |
Pasteruella pneumotropica , p. Multocida |
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Small spiral or rod bacterium can cause hepatic tumors |
Hepatitis heliobacter |
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Transmissible murine colonic hyperplasia |
Clinical signs diarrhea prolapsed rectum. |
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Citrobactor freundil |
Causative agent gram negative bacterium of transmissible murine colonic hyperplasia |
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Mice are susceptible to |
Streptobacillus moniliformis, staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus, leptospirosis |
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Sendai virus |
Primary causative agent of viral respiratory disease |
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Mouse pox (ectromelia) |
Not common in US. Very young or old susceptible. Mice only known natural host. |
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Lymphocytic chroiomeningitis |
Natural infection in nearly 100% wild mouse population |
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Mouse hepatitis virus |
Common coronavirus. Clinical signs diarrhea, jaundice, tremors. Suckling mice fatally infected. |
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Reovirus type 3 |
Clinical signs seen in suckling mice , diarrhea tremors jaundice. No treatment |
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Mycotic disease |
Extremely rare. Trichophyton mentagrophytes, avian species |
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Parasitic disease |
Mites, lice, protozoa giadia muris, spironucleus muris, cestode genus hymenolepis, nematodes syphacia obvelata, aspicularis tetraptera |
