RENSSELAER, N.Y., June 4 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in providing genetically engineered rodent model solutions, announces that all commercial mouse colonies and contract mouse breeding barriers are free of a newly discovered pathogen. Taconic is the first and only commercial animal vendor to exclude mouse kidney parvovirus from its animals at all health standards.
In an October 2019 Cell paper, an Australian and American research consortium announced the discovery of a novel mouse parvovirus, named mouse kidney parvovirus or MKPV (https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31029-8). The report states this highly infectious pathogen causes inclusion body nephropathy and eventual renal failure and death in immunodeficient mice.