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Possible health hazards associated with the collection and handling of post‐mortem zoological material
Author(s) -
IRVIN A. D.,
COOPER J. E.,
HEDGES S. R.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
mammal review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.574
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2907
pISSN - 0305-1838
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2907.1972.tb00156.x
Subject(s) - checklist , incidence (geometry) , environmental health , medicine , biology , paleontology , physics , optics
Zoologists handling post‐mortem material are at risk to infection by a number of potentially dangerous pathogens. The incidence of such infections is small but that is no reason for complacency. The possible sources of infection and precautions to be taken are reviewed and an annotated checklist of potentially dangerous diseases which might be associated with post‐mortem material is given.