Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology

Axel Kornerup Hansen (DVM, Dr. Vet. Sci., DipECLAM) is professor in laboratory animal science and welfare at University of Copenhagen. He is heading a research group mainly focusing on how the microbiota has an impact on laboratory animal models for inflammatory diseases and how this works in conjunction with the diet. He has published 157 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, and 36 other papers in books, proceedings or popular journals. Dennis Sandris Nielsen (MSc, PhD) is associate professor at University of Copenhagen, with a special interest in gut microbiota, indigenous African fermented foods and fermented products contributing to the more joyful side of life (cocoa, wine, coffee). He is heading a research group mainly focusing on microbe-host and microbe-microbe-interactions in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract. He has published 75 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, and 15+ other papers in books, proceedings or popular journals.

Laboratory animal bacteriology: The past, the present, and the future. Sampling animals for bacteriological examination. Cultivation and identification of bacteria. Immunological methods. Molecular biology-based methods for microbiota characterization. Mechanisms behind bacterial impact on animal models Systematic classification of bacteria. Firmicutes. Bacteroidetes. Proteobacteria. Actinobacteria. Spirochaetae. Tenericutes. Verrucomicrobia, Deferribacteres, Fusobacterium, and TM. Appendix A: Producers of reagents for laboratory animal bacteriology. Appendix B: Biosafety levels for microbiological laboratories. Appendix C: Media buffers and reagents commonly applied in. laboratory animal bacteriology. Index.