How "humane" is your endpoint? Refining the science-driven approach for termination of animal studies of chronic infection.

PLoS Pathog

IBMC - Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (Laboratory Animal Science Group), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Published: January 2012

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