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Some affected rats have mucopurulent nasal exudate or pink, porphyrin-tinted oculonasal discharge, but gross lesions in the upper respiratory tract are, in many cases, not detectable. Exudate can sometimes be found in the nasal passages, trachea, and tympanic cavities. These structures should be disturbed as little as possible during dissection and collection of specimens for culture so as to preserve the quality of the tissues for microscopic examination.
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Schoeb, T.R., Lindsey, J.R. (1985). Murine Respiratory Mycoplasmosis, Upper Respiratory Tract, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Respiratory System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96846-4_12
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