Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory for Autopsies of Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Principles, Practices, and Prospects | Zendy

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Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory for Autopsies of Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Principles, Practices, and Prospects

Author(s) -

L. Li,

Jiang Gu,

Xiaowei Shi,

Enpu Gong,

Xiaoyi Li,

Haibo Shao,

Huayong Jiang,

Xing Gao,

Dongliang Cheng,

Lu Guo,

Haichen Wang,

Peng Wang,

Qing Zhang,

Bing Shen

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/432720

Subject(s) - biosafety , personal protective equipment , medicine , outbreak , covid-19 , emergency medicine , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , pathology , disease

During the outbreak of the emergent severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infection, >30% of the approximately 8000 infected persons were health care workers. The highly infectious nature of SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) compelled our pathologists to consider biosafety issues in the autopsy room and for tissue processing procedures.

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