How "humane" is Your Endpoint? Refining the Science-driven Approach for Termination of Animal Studies of Chronic Infection

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Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2012 Jan 26

PMID 22275862

Citations 23

Authors

Nuno H Franco

Margarida Correia-Neves

I Anna S Olsson

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