An attempt for eradication of Sendai virus from a mouse breeding colony.
Eradication of Sendai virus from an infected mouse breeding colony was successfully made by sacrificing all offspring younger than 5 weeks of age at a time and then newborns as well as severely affected breeder mice for successive 2 weeks. By this method, number of breeders decreased of two third of those in the original colony but recovered again about 2 months later.
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010222:Parainfluenza Virus 1, Human; D018184:Paramyxoviridae Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*