Guidelines for Biosafety in Teaching Laboratories Version 2.0: A Revised and Updated Manual for 2019
The original Guidelines for Biosafety in Teaching Laboratories were developed in 2012 in response to an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium tracked by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) originating from clinical and teaching microbiology laboratories. In the 7 years since the publi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education |
| Online Access: | http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/1975 |
| Summary: | The original Guidelines for Biosafety in Teaching Laboratories were developed in 2012 in response to an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium tracked by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) originating from clinical and teaching microbiology laboratories. In the 7 years since the publication of the guidelines there have been two subsequent CDC reports of Salmonella outbreaks originating from clinical and teaching microbiology laboratories. Use of and issues with the guidelines by ASM members has been tracked by various means since publication and in 2018 it became apparent that an update of the guidelines was necessary. The Education Board of the American Society for Microbiology charged this taskforce with updating the guidelines based on the accumulated information. While the guidelines should look familiar to users, users will find that the originally separate BSL1 and BSL2 guidelines have been rolled into one document, to help eliminate redundancy and confusion. In addition, sections on risk assessment and service animals in the teaching laboratory have been added. These updated guidelines should help clarify many of the issues that users expressed problems with in the original guidelines.
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| ISSN: | 1935-7877 1935-7885 |