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Grand Challenges for Biosafety and Biosecurity
Success in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases has saved more lives than any other achievement of medical science. The three greatest advances have been clean water, immunization, and the advent of antibiotics and, more recently, antivirals. Despite this record of success, we are far from conquering the grand challenge to human health posed by microbes. All that has been achieve...
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Gostaria de destacar no artigo em debate a sua atualidade e a perspectiva de não redução da biossegurança a procedimentos de avaliação de risco, ampliando-a para um escopo que inclui sua contextualização fundamental para atitudes precaucionárias tanto no nível individual, como no social e no institucional. As autoras iniciam seu artigo conceituando o campo da biossegurança. Faz um contraponto a...
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Over 300 Asian life scientists were surveyed to provide insight into their work with infectious agents. This survey was designed to inform our understanding of the state of biosci-ences, laboratory biosecurity, and biosafety in Asia. The survey results can help to identify and address gaps in the development and implementation of policies and practices related to laboratory biosafety and biosec...
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BACKGROUND This study determined current status of laboratory biosafety in Nigerian veterinary research facilities. METHODS A questionnaire was developed to obtain information from researchers across Nigeria from July 2014 to July 2015. Information regarding demographics, knowledge of laboratory biosafety, availability and proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), any priority pathog...
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Select agent research in the United States must meet federally-mandated biological surety guidelines and rules which are comprised of two main components: biosecurity and biosafety. Biosecurity is the process employed for ensuring biological agents are properly safeguarded against theft, loss, diversion, unauthorized access or use/release. Biosafety is those processes that ensure that operation...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JALA: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1535-5535
DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2009.03.002