Animal Health Surveillance
Animal Health and Data Integrity
The difficulty of infectious agents apart from the obvious potential for clinical morbidity and morality of unique
animals, is that they interfere with the normative responses of even asymptomatic animals, including altering
numerous cell biological responses in vitro, resulting in data variations and the misinterpretation of results.
Comparative Medicine provides IACUC-certified personnel with the following information regarding animal health
surveillance.
Please address questions to CompMed@research.usf.edu, telephone (813) 974-9796, fax (813) 974-9432; IACUC@research.usf.edu, telephone (813) 974-7106, fax (813) 974-7091.