title: Recommended biocontainment features for research and diagnostic facilities where animal pathogens are used. First International Veterinary Biosafety Workshop.
abstract: Recommendations are presented for the minimum structural components, special utilities, installations, and other design and operational features which define a microbiologically-secure animal containment facility. These biocontainment parameters are expected to enable the safe housing and handling of livestock and poultry infected with pathogenic agents. Physical testing and certification requirements for commissioning such facilities are described. Such a facility will minimise personnel exposure to infectious agents, limit cross-contamination between experiments, minimise horizontal transmission between research animals, and reduce the likelihood of pathogenic agents being released to the outside environment.
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Barbeito
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Best
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cairns
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Langevin
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Sterritt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meulepas
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Vizcaíno
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saraza
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000592:standards*; D006799:Housing, Animal / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*; D012449:Safety; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000592:standards*