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Biosafety is the
prevention of large-scale loss of
biological integrity,
focusing both on
ecology and
human health.
These prevention mechanisms include...
- A
biosafety level (BSL), or pathogen/protection level, is a set of
biocontainment precautions required to
isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed...
- A
biosafety cabinet (BSC)—also
called a
biological safety cabinet or
microbiological safety cabinet—is an enclosed,
ventilated laboratory workspace for...
- The
Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety to the
Convention on
Biological Diversity is an
international agreement on
biosafety as a
supplement to the Convention...
- The
Biosafety Clearing-House is an
international mechanism that
exchanges information about the
movement of
genetically modified organisms, established...
- One use of the
concept of
biocontainment is
related to
laboratory biosafety and
pertains to
microbiology laboratories in
which the
physical containment...
- Wuhan, Hubei, it was
founded in 1956 and
opened mainland China's
first biosafety level 4 (BSL-4)
laboratory in 2018. The
institute has
collaborated with...
- filoviruses—including
Ebola virus,
Sudan virus,
Marburg virus, and Ravn virus—are
Biosafety Level 4 agents,
extremely dangerous to
humans because they are very infectious...
- the
needs of
biosafety professionals. The ****ociation's
goals are to
represent the
interests and
desires of
practitioners of
biosafety, and to be a dispenser...
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diagnostic work with
clinical specimens can be done
safely at
Biosafety Level 2,
using Biosafety Level 2
practices and procedures.
Research work (including...
