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A biosafety level (BSL), or pathogen/protection level, is a set of biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed laboratory facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 (BSL-1) to the highest at level 4 (BSL-4).
Biosafety level – Set of biocontainment precautions; Hazard – Situation or object that can cause harm; Interplanetary contamination – Biological contamination of a planetary body by a space probe or spacecraft; List of laboratory biosecurity incidents; Planetary protection – Prevention of interplanetary biological contamination
Risk Group 2 : (moderate individual risk, low community risk) A pathogen that can cause human or animal disease but is unlikely to be a serious hazard to laboratory workers, the community, livestock or the environment. Laboratory exposures may cause serious infection, but effective treatment and preventive measures are available and the risk of ...
A biosafety cabinet (BSC)—also called a biological safety cabinet or microbiological safety cabinet—is an enclosed, ventilated laboratory workspace for safely working with materials contaminated with (or potentially contaminated with) pathogens requiring a defined biosafety level.
A "biosafety level" (BSL) is the level of the biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed laboratory facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 (BSL-1) to the highest at level 4 (BSL-4).
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Not all select agents require BSL-4 handling, namely select bacteria and toxins, but most select agent viruses do (with the notable exception of SARS-CoV-1 which can be handled in BSL3). Many non-select agent viruses are often handled in BSL-4 according to facility SOPs or when dealing with new viruses closely related to viruses that require BSL-4.
NEIDL is one of only 13 operational or planned biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories in the United States. NEIDL's current director is Nancy Sullivan, ScD . She previously served as the chief of the Biosecurity Research Section at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the National ...