title: A comprehensive, barcoded system for the management of animal information in a research facility.
abstract: The authors describe an easy-to-use barcode-based animal tracking system that has improved record keeping and data retrieval and proved instrumental in the containment of an outbreak.
authors.affiliation: Lab Animal Resources, Merck Research Laboratories, PO Box 4, WP44-201, Sumneytown Pike, West Point, PA 19486, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pryor
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frankenfield
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Terpeluk
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Washington
authors.forename: N T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Mourad
mesh_terms: D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006799:Housing, Animal; D007255:Information Services; D007756:Laboratory Animal Science