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The Office of Animal Care Management oversees the operation of research animal facilities at the University of Vermont. The University's research animal facilities currently house approximately 8,000 animals of which over 98% are mice and rats. The majority of the research rodents are high-health status animals maintained under barrier conditions. Animal models facilitate discovery in the areas of infectious disease, endocrinology and metabolic disease, cancer and chemotherapy, immunology and respiratory disease, among others. The University of Vermont's Animal Care program is fully accredited by the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC, International).