biocontainment
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thumb|280px|right|Researchers working in Biosafety level#Biosafety level 3|Class III cabinets at the [[U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories, Camp Detrick, Maryland (1940s). Biocontainment procedures were pioneered at the USBWL in the 1940s and '50s.]]
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Containment types
- Laboratory context
- Agricultural context
- Biosafety levels
- Guidelines
- Laboratory program
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|280px|right|Researchers working in Biosafety level#Biosafety level 3|Class III cabinets at the [[U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories, Camp Detrick, Maryland (1940s). Biocontainment procedures were pioneered at the USBWL in the 1940s and '50s.]]
One use of the concept of biocontainment is related to laboratory biosafety and pertains to microbiology laboratories in which the physical containment of pathogenic organisms or agents (bacteria, viruses, and toxins) is required, usually by isolation in environmentally and biologically secure cabinets or rooms, to prevent accidental infection of workers or release into the surrounding community during scientific research.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “biocontainment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.