DVR supports the NIH intramural research program by operating a central animal diagnostic laboratory that receives laboratory animals and specimens for evaluation. The Diagnostic & Research Services Branch of DVR provides, manages and evaluates a wide variety of scientific services in the broad areas of veterinary pathology, and both clinical and molecular microbiology.
Services include rodent animal health surveillance, bacteriology, serology, parasitology, molecular diagnostics-PCR, necropsy, gross pathology and histopathology.
