Procedure Safely restrain the suspect animal with ketamine hydrochloride.
Do a physical examination of the animal using appropriate protective apparel. Pay particular attention to whether there are vesicular lesions on the animal's genitalia or in its oral cavity. RARC will call laboratory results to the U.W. Hospital Infectious Disease physician for follow up as the results are received from the diagnostic laboratory. Procedures requiring removal from the home cage should be done on animals held under chemical restraint or anesthetized animals. If it is necessary that the animal is awake during the procedure, the animal should be guided into a transfer box and then placed into a restraining device.