title: Laboratory management of agents associated with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: interim biosafety guidelines. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
abstract: This report provides interim biosafety guidelines for preventing laboratory-associated infections with agents that cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The guidelines are based on extensive laboratory experience with the other hantaviruses--particularly work involving the use of permissive host animal species--and on the limited experience with a hantavirus recently isolated from deer mice. The guidelines address handling patient-derived specimens, propagating viruses in culture (including viral concentrate preparations), and housing and handling infected animals. These recommendations were developed with the assistance of expert consultants during a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Subcommittee on Arbovirus Laboratory Safety, November 2, 1993, in Atlanta.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002044:Bunyaviridae Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006476:Orthohantavirus; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D007757:Laboratory Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000592:standards*