Availability of the CDC/NIH Manual, Biosafety in
Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories
The second edition of Biosafety in the Microbiological and
Biomedical
Laboratories is now available.
This document was developed jointly by CDC and the National
Institutes
of Health in 1984 to help define the principles of biosafety and to
provide guidelines for implementing them in the research
laboratory. It
outlines standard and special microbiologic practices, safety
equipment, and facilities that constitute four biosafety levels.
Recommended safe microbiologic techniques are described in detail
for
special infectious agents through the use of agent summary
statements.
The 1988 edition is identical in content but has added the Agent
Summary Statement for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Report on
Laboratory-Acquired Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (1)
to
the information in the first edition.
Requests from academic institutions and private laboratories for
single copies should be directed to NIH/DS, 31-1C02, Bethesda, MD,
20892. Copies for other institutions or multiple copies may be
obtained
for $3.75 per copy (stock no. 107-040-000508-3) from the
Superintendent
of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.,
20402.
Reference
CDC. 1988 agent summary statement for human immunodeficiency
virus
and report on laboratory-acquired infection with human
immunodeficiency
virus. MMWR 1988;37(suppl S-4).
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