Weidmann, Manfred
Working in Biosafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories: A Practical Introduction
This guide is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b which serves as a standard for many courses BSL3/4 training courses worldwide. The four-day course consists of lectures and practical training with the lecturers covering all the different possibilities of organising a BSL-3/4 lab including the adaptation to the local requirements of biosafety, safety at work, and social regulations.
This book covers bio-containment, hazard criteria and categorisation of microbes, technical specifications of BSL-3 laboratories and ABSL-3 laboratories, personal protective gear, shipping BSL-3 and BSL-4 organisms according to UN and IATA regulations, efficacy of inactivation procedures, fumigation, learning from a history of lab accidents, handling samples that arrive for diagnostic testing and bridging the gap between the requirements of bio-containment and diagnostics. Course participants can not only use the book for their actual training event but it will remain a useful reference throughout their career in BSL3/4 labs.
Keywords: Microbiology & Virology
- Author(s)
- Weidmann, Manfred
- Silmann, Nigel
- Butaye, Patrick
- Elschner, Mandy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 150 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9783527675333
- Printed ISBN
- 9783527334674