Chapter title |
Safety Procedures to Work with West Nile Virus in Biosafety Level 3 Facilities
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Chapter number | 18 |
Book title |
West Nile Virus
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2023
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-0716-2760-0_18 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-07-162759-4, 978-1-07-162760-0
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Authors |
Green, Freedom M, Ronca, Shannon E, Green, Freedom M., Ronca, Shannon E. |
Abstract |
West Nile virus (WNV) can cause severe and sometimes fatal disease, but we do not have treatments or therapeutics to manage these outcomes. Since its introduction to the USA in 1999, WNV has been handled in a biosafety level 3 laboratory to decrease risk to researchers, requiring strict safety protocols and important considerations with planning experiments. Recent changes in US guidelines suggest that WNV can be handled at a lower biosafety level due to its endemicity in the USA and generally minor symptoms, but some research still requires the use of the agent at biosafety level 3. This chapter will briefly discuss the considerations of biosafety when working with WNV. |
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