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Biosecurity measures observance in the ambulatory surgical unit

open access: yesArchivo Médico de Camagüey, 2018
Background: the health workers who manipulate the infectious agents or infected materials must know the possible risks and be experts in their sure manipulation.
Zahili Rodríguez Castillo   +4 more
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Will containment of wild poliovirus in laboratories and inactivated poliovirus vaccine production sites be effective for global certification?

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
The absolute laboratory containment of any virus cannot be guaranteed, but a wealth of experience indicates that effective containment of wild poliovirus materials for global certification is technically and operationally feasible.
Dowdle Walter R.   +4 more
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Mars Surface Operations via Low-Latency Telerobotics from Phobos [PDF]

open access: yes
To help assess the feasibility and timing of Low-Latency Telerobotics (LLT) operations on Mars via a Phobos telecommand base, operations concepts (ops cons) and timelines for several representative sequences for Mars surface operations have been ...
Lupisella, Mark, Wright, Michael
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Caracterización de los accidentes por exposición a agente biológico en una población de estudiantes de medicina de Bucaramanga Characterization of biological accidents in medical students population from Bucaramanga

open access: yesInfectio, 2012
Introducción: Los accidentes biológicos son eventos de alto riesgo por la probabilidad de infección con agentes como virus de inmunodeficiencia humana o hepatitis B.
Camilo Eduardo Lozano   +2 more
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Framework for evaluating the risks of paralytic poliomyelitis after global interruption of wild poliovirus transmission

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
With the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission globally, the need for new policies to deal with the post certification era will rapidly arise.
Aylward R. Bruce, Cochi Stephen L.
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The Recombinant DNA Debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
The questions surrounding the recombinant DNA research debate are not just questions of technique and safety. They involve the driving forces of scientific research, especially those premises and presuppositions concerning the expansion of knowledge ...
Brown, Richard E.
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Certification of polio eradication: process and lessons learned

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
Since the 1988 World Health Assembly resolution to eradicate poliomyelitis, considerable progress has been made towards interrupting the transmission of wild poliovirus globally. A formal process for the certification of polio eradication was established
Smith Joseph   +3 more
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An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Unannounced Safety Inspections Versus Announced Inspections in Academic Research Laboratories That Utilize Biological Hazards [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Inspections are integral to comprehensive biosafety programs at academic research institutions that use a wide variety of infectious agents. However, there is no standardization of biosafety inspection procedures from institution to institution.
Trucks, Holley M.
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DNA Technology: Are We Ready? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
It is a common practice to identify certain historical periods with the name of the most significant technological invention of the time. Thus, we have had an Industrial Revolution, an Age of Steam, the Automotive Age, and so on, up to the Atomic Age. We
Guthrie, R. H.
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Polio control after certification: major issues outstanding

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
Now that the global eradication of wild poliovirus is almost within sight, planning for the post-certification era is becoming a priority issue. It is agreed that a stockpile of appropriate polio vaccines will need to be established, and a surveillance ...
Fine Paul E.M.   +2 more
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