Title: Biological safety : principles and practices /
Authors: Fleming, Diane O.; Hunt, Debra Long.
Publisher: ASM Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Laboratories standards; Accidents, Occupational prevention & control; Biological laboratories Safety measures.; Microbiological laboratories Safety measures.; Accidents, Occupational prevention and control.; Safety; United States
Contents: Ch. 1. Indigenous and pathogenic microorganisms of humans -- Ch. 2. Pathogens of mice, rats, and rabbits -- Ch. 3. Laboratory, growth chamber, and greenhouse microbial safety: plant pathogens and plant-associated microorganisms of significance to human health -- Ch. 4. Epidemiology of laboratory-associated infections -- Ch. 5. Risk assessment of biological hazards -- Ch. 6. Bacterial pathogens -- Ch. 7. Protozoa and helminths -- Ch. 8. Mycotic agents of human disease -- Ch. 9. Zoonoses -- Ch. 10. Transmission and control of laboratory-acquired hepatitis infection -- Ch. 11. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 and other blood-borne pathogens -- Ch. 12. Biosafety of prion diseases -- Ch. 13. Biosafety precautions for mycobacterium tuberculosis and other airborne pathogens -- Ch. 14. Cell lines: applications and biosafety -- Ch. 15. Allergies associated with the use of latex -- Ch. 16. Allergens of animal and biological systems -- Ch. 17. Biological toxins -- Ch. 18. Pfiesteria.