Biosafety Outside Laboratories

1 Laboratory Biosafety in Containment Laboratories

Microbiological research on and diagnostics of highly pathogenic microorganisms, namely bacteria and viruses, have to be conducted in containment laboratories in order to contain the infectious material. We are therefore referring to the ‘‘Concept of Biocontainment’’ – a concept, which dates back to the 1940s, when the first biosafety cabinet (BSC) class III was developed at the US Army Biologi...

Biosafety " Behavioral - Based " Training for High Biocontainment Laboratories : Bringing Theory into Practice for Biosafety Training

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The HRL Laboratories: Thinking Outside the Box

HRL Laboratories : Thinking Outside the Box

The Web is evolving from a global information space to a collaborative problem solving environment in which services (resources) are dynamically discovered and composed into workflows for problem solving, and later disbanded. This gives rise to an increasing demand for provenance, which enables users to trace how a particular result has been arrived at by identifying the resources, configuratio...

Assessment of biosafety precautions in Khartoum state diagnostic laboratories, Sudan

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to evaluate the biosafety precautions that applied by diagnostic laboratories in Khartoum state, 2009. METHODS A total number of 190 laboratories were surveyed about their compliance with standard biosafety precautions. These laboratories included 51 (27%) laboratories from government, 75 (39%) from private sectors and 64 (34%) laboratories belong to organi...