Description: A laboratory animal care technique performed to produce gnotobiotic animals (also 'gnotobiotes' or 'gnotobionts'), which are born in aseptic conditions. Such animals are normally reared in a sterile or microbially-controlled laboratory environment, and they are only exposed to those microorganisms that the researchers wish to have present in the animal.
Superclass: Laboratory animal care
Description: A laboratory animal care technique performed to produce gnotobiotic animals (also 'gnotobiotes' or 'gnotobionts'), which are born in aseptic conditions. Such animals are normally reared in a sterile or microbially-controlled laboratory environment, and they are only exposed to those microorganisms that the researchers wish to have present in the animal. Superclass: Laboratory animal care
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