The Veterinary Care unit within the Division of Laboratory Animal Resources at Stony Brook University provides standard and emergency care for research animals, including health monitoring for spontaneous and experimentally-induced disease. The unit oversees the importation, experimental use and breeding of animals, conducts sentinel-based health monitoring, and ensures all care is carried out in compliance with state and federal regulations, and institutional policies.
One of our veterinarians is always available for emergencies with research animals:
Weekdays After Hours (4pm-8am): (631) 263-7501
Saturdays and Holidays: (631) 263-0668
Sundays: (631) 263-7501
Standard Veterinary Care (NetID Login required)
Veterinary Drugs & Supply Ordering
The DLAR provides veterinary drugs for use in approved IACUC protocols. Many standard anesthetic, antibiotic and analgesic drugs are routinely kept in stock. Other drugs will need to be special ordered. DLAR places a 15% recharge on the all drug purchases to recover the cost of ordering, stocking and dispensing.
- Complete the Veterinary Drug/Supply Order Form.
- You will be asked to sign off for the drugs received.
- Drug/Supply requests must be made at least 24 hours in advance.
- Requested Drug/Supplies may be picked up on Monday, Wednesday or Friday (except Holidays) between 1 pm and 2 pm at our main facility.
Standard Rodent Health Monitoring
Our Biosecurity Coordinator ensures all the animals in our care are kept free of pathogens that may cause clinical disease, zoonotic disease, or affect the research. We do this through sentinel-free soiled bedding. This means we do not use live animal sentinels, but a system whereby the soiled bedding from research animal cages is tested for common pathogens. You may notice our sentinel cages as the red cages (see image) in our animal rooms. These are collected quarterly to test for our excluded pathogens, which are:
Murine Norovirus (MNV) – Excluded from 1st Order Max ONLY
Helicobacter – Excluded from 1st Order Max ONLY
Rodentibacter spp. – Excluded from 1st and 2nd Order Max ONLY
Corynebacterium bovis – Excluded from 1st and 2nd Order Max ONLY
Pneumocystis spp. – Excluded from 1st and 2nd Order Max ONLY
Mouse Parvovirus (MPV)
Minute Virus of Mice (MVM)
Mouse Hepatitis Virus (MHV)
Mouse Rotavirus-A (EDIM)
Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus (TMEV, GDVII)
Pneumonia Virus of Mice (PVM)
Polyoma Virus (PyV)
Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV)
Lactate Dehydrogenase-Elevating Virus (LDEV)
Mycoplasma pulmonis
Salmonella spp.
Myobia musculi
Radfordia affinis
Myocoptes musculinus
Aspicularis tetraptera
Syphacia spp.
Spironucleus muris
Giardia spp.
Cryptosporidium spp.
Known pathogens present in our facility (except where previously noted), include Tritrichomonas spp. and Demodex musculi.