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The AALAS Technician Certification Handbook

Excerpted from: AALAS Technician Certification Handbook (revised 5/08)

LATG Additional Reading List

LATG Additional Reading List

LATG 1: Personal Management:

LATG 2: Facility Management:

LATG 3: Facility Security & Disaster Planning:

LATG 4: Regulations:

LATG 5: Health Surveillance & Quality Assurance:

  • US Department of Health and Human Services. 1978. FDA Good Laboratory Practices for Non-Clinical Laboratory Studies. Part 58. Fed. Reg. 43(247): 60013-60020.
  • Office for Protection from Research Risks. 2002. PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Bethesda, MD: NIH. Available as Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
  • National Research Council. 1996. Guide for the care and use of laboratory Animals. Washington (DC): National Academy Press.
  • Baker HJ, Lindsey JR, Weisbroth SH, editors. 1979. Biology and diseases. In The Laboratory Rat, Vol. 1. Orlando, FL: Academic Press. Available Online at the Scientific Library.
  • Nomura T, Esaki K, Tomita T, editors. 1984. ICLAS manual for genetic monitoring of inbred mice. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
  • Eaton AD, Clesceri LS, Rice EW, Greenberg AE, editors. 2005. Standard methods for examination of water and wastewater, 21st edition. American Public Health Association, Water Environment Federation, and American Water Works Association, publishers. 
  • Committee on Animal Nutrition, Ad Hoc Committee on Nonhuman Primate Nutrition, National Research Council. 2003. Nutrient requirements of nonhuman primates: 2nd revised edition. Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences. 
  • Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals: Report Series. Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences.
  • Animal Welfare Act (7 USC 2131-2155; 80 Stat. 350, 84 Stat. 1560, 90 Stat. 417, 99 Stat. 1645, 104 Stat. 4066, 5177; 105 Stat. 1984; 109 Stat. 711, 948), as amended.
  • Reuter JD, Suckow MA, editors [Internet]. Quality assurance/ surveillance monitoring programs for rodent colonies. In Laboratory animal medicine and management [cited June 4, 2007].

LATG 6: Occupational Health & Safety:

LATG 7: Introduction to Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry:

  • Odian G, Blei I. 1994. General, organic, and biological chemistry. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 2008 version Available at the Scientific Library. An alternate choice Available at the Scientific Library may be Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry by John McMurry, 2011, 7th edition.
  • Bloomfield M. 1995. Chemistry and the living organism. 6th edition. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.

LATG 8: Molecular Biology:

  • Bloomfield M. 1995. Chemistry and the living organism. 6th edition. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Clark DP, Russell LD. 1997. Molecular biology made simple and fun. Vienna, IL: Cache River Press. 

LATG 9: Immunology:

  • Coe-Clough N, Roth JA. 1998. Understanding immunology. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

LATG 10: Genetic Engineering:

LATG 11: Gnotobiotics:

  • Wostmann BS. 1996. Germfree and gnotobiotics animal models: Background and applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc. GB Limited Preview. 
  • Svendsen, Per. 1994. Gnotobiology, p. 273. In Melby EC Jr., Altman NH, editors. Handbook of laboratory animal science, vol. I. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 
  • Wagner JE, Foster HL. 1976. Germ-free and specific pathogen- free, p. 21-30. In Wagner JE, Manning PJ, editors. The biology of the guinea pig. New York, NY: Academic Press. Available online at the Scientific Library as well as the 2014 version

LATG 12: Agents of Infectious Disease:

  • Barker DG, editor. 2007. Flynn's parasites of laboratory animals, 2nd edition. Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishing. Available at the Scientific Library.
  • Hirsh DC. 2004. Veterinary microbiology. 2nd edition. Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishing. 
  • Ikram M, Hill E. 1991. Microbiology for veterinary technicians. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
  • McCurnin DM. 2006. Clinical textbook for veterinary technicians. 6th editon. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders.
  • Shapiro LS. 2004. Pathology and parasitology for veterinary technicians. Clift on Park, NY: Delmar Publishing.
  • Sloss MW, Kemp RL, Zajac AM. 1994. Veterinary clinical parasitology. 6th edition. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

LATG 13: Common Diseases of Laboratory Animals:

LATG 14: Diagnostic Techniques:

LATG 15: Pharmacology:

LATG 16: Anesthesia & Analgesia:

  • Hawk CT, Leary SL. 1999. Formulary for laboratory animals. 2nd edition. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. GB Limited Preview of 3rd edition:
  • Flecknell P. 1996. Laboratory animal anesthesia. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Academic Press. The 2016 edition, is Available Online at the Scientific Library.
  • Thurmon JC, Tranquilli WJ, Benson JG, editors. 1996. Lumb and Jones' veterinary anesthesia, 3rd editon. Philadelphia, PA: Williams and Wilkins.
  • Kohn DF, Wilson SK, White WJ, Benson GJ, editors. 1997. Anesthesia and analgesia in laboratory animals. New York, NY: Academic Press. A 2008 similar title is Available Online at the Scientific Library.

LATG 17: Experimental Design & Data Handling:

  • Norman GR, Streiner D. 1994. Biostatistics: the bare essentials. St Louis, MO: Mosby. A similar title, An Introduction to Biostatistics, 2016 is Available at the Scientific Library
  • Dytham C. 2003. Choosing and using statistics: a biologist's guide, 2nd edition. Oxford UK: Blackwell Science.