{"id":307,"date":"2020-01-28T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikrobiologiklinik.fk.undip.ac.id\/?p=307"},"modified":"2023-01-28T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T06:38:21","slug":"307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikrobiologiklinik.fk.undip.ac.id\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Biosafety Levels (BSL-1, BSL-2, BSL-3 and BSL-4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Definition and Introduction<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biosafety is the prevention of risk to human health and safety, and the conservation of the environment and the pathogen, as a result of the use for research and commerce of infectious or genetically modified organisms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These levels are defined by the Central for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where each of these levels is outlined with specific practices and safety requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the CDC, biosafety levels are of four types depending on the risk associated with the microorganism and the facilities available. The levels of containment range from the biosafety level 1 (BSL-1), which is the lowest to the level 4 (BSL-4), which is the highest.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source pic : https:\/\/consteril.com\/biosafety-levels-difference\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Biosafety Levels<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>1. Biosafety Level -1 (BSL-1)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biosafety Level 1 is the level appropriate for work involving well-characterized agents not known to consistently cause disease in immune-competent adult humans and cause a minimal potential hazard to the laboratory personnel and the environment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/mikrobiologiklinik.fk.undip.ac.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/bsl-300x186.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><b>2. Biosafety Level -1 (BSL-1)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Biosafety level-2 laboratories are the laboratories that are used for the tasks involving microbial agents of moderate potential hazards to the laboratory personnel, the environment, and the agent.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>3. Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) is the level where work is performed with agents that may cause severe or potentially lethal disease through inhalation or aerosol formation, to the personnel, and may even contaminate the environment.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>4. Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Biosafety level 4 is the highest level that is employed while working with dangerous infectious agents that present a high individual as well as environmental risk in the form of life-threatening disease, aerosol transmission, or unknown risk of transmission.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><b>Source :<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>https:\/\/microbenotes.com\/biosafety-levels\/#definition-and-introduction<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition and Introduction Biosafety is the prevention of risk to human health and safety, and the conservation of the environment and the pathogen, as a result of the use for research and commerce of infectious or genetically modified organisms. 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