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Examining Intercage Transmission of : Impact of Barrier Husbandry and Cage Sanitization. | LitMetric

Examining Intercage Transmission of : Impact of Barrier Husbandry and Cage Sanitization.

J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci

Tri-Institutional Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine and Science, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, and The Rockefeller University, New York, New York.

Published: August 2024

(Cm) has reemerged as a prevalent bacterial contaminant of academic research mouse colonies. A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of husbandry and cage sanitization methods in preventing intercage transmission of Cm. To assess intercage transmission during cage change, a cage housing 2 Cm-free Swiss Webster (SW; Tac:SW) sentinel mice was placed randomly on each of 12 individually ventilated cage racks, housing cages with Cm-shedding mice, located in one of 2 animal holding rooms. Husbandry staff blinded to the study cages changed all cages in the animal holding rooms weekly using a microisolation cage technique. PCR testing performed at 180 d postplacement confirmed all mice remained negative for Cm. To assess the effectiveness of cage sanitization to eliminate Cm, we investigated transmission of Cm to a naive Cm-free SW and NOD.Cg- /SzJ (NSG) mouse cohoused for 7 d (repeated weekly for 4 wk) in cages assigned to one of 3 groups ( = 10 pairs of mice/group). Cages that previously housed 2 Cm-shedding BALB/c mice were either washed in a tunnel washer (82.2 °C [180 °F] final rinse for an average of 16 s per run; = 10) with and without postwashing autoclaving (121 °C for 20 min; = 10), or were untreated (bedding change only; = 10). Pre- and postsanitization swabs of each cage were assayed for Cm by PCR. All pretreatment swabs tested positive, while posttreatment swabs from all cages (excluding bedding change) tested negative. All SW and NSG mice, irrespective of group, remained negative for Cm as determined by PCR. These findings suggest that infectious Cm does not persist in untreated cages or after mechanical washing with and without autoclaving. Collectively, these findings suggest that neither our husbandry protocols nor inadequate cage sanitization methods likely contributed to the observed prevalence of Cm in contemporary research mouse colonies.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.30802/AALAS-JAALAS-24-043DOI Listing

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