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President's Page(PDF 100KB)

Guest Editorial

Biosafety Officers, Behavioral Compliance Strategies, and Their Effects on Laboratory Practices(PDF 184KB)
Sean G. Kaufman, Henry Mathews, and Lee M. Alderman

Articles

Testing the Efficacy of a Combination of Microwave and Steam Heat for Log Reduction of the Microbial Load Following a Simulated Poultry Mass Mortality Event(PDF 184KB)
Anthony A. Devine, Amy M. Grunden, Edward Krisiunas, Dawn K. Davis, Grisel Rosario, Sean Scott, Shelia Faision, and Wm. Mark Cosby

Selecting the Right Chemical Agent for Decontamination of Rooms and Chambers(PDF 172KB)
Mark A. Czarneski

Declassification of Rodents Exposed to Third-Generation HIV-Based Vectors into Class 1 Animals(PDF 248KB)
Stéphane Karlen and Romain Zufferey

Evaluation of SARS-Coronavirus Decontamination Procedures(PDF 204KB)
Anne-Marie Pagat, Raphaelle Seux-Goepfert, Charles Lutsch, Valérie Lecouturier, Jean-François Saluzzo, and Inca C. Kusters

Technical Commentary

Implications of Low Level Human Exposure to Respirable B. anthracis(PDF 280KB)
Murray L. Cohen and Thomas Whalen

Special Features

Book Review - Biological Safety: Principles and Practices (Fourth Edition) Edited by Diane O. Fleming and Debra L. Hunt(PDF 72KB)
Reviewed by Barbara Johnson

Biosafety Tips - Transmission of M. tuberculosis Attributed to the Use of Compressed Gas Coolant While Processing Infected Tissue in a Cryostat(PDF 92KB)
Karen B. Byers

Capsule - FDA Approves First U.S. Vaccine for Humans against the Avian Influenza Virus H5N1(PDF 64KB)
Ed Krisiunas

Ask the Experts - Can more than one person work at a Biosafety Cabinet at a time?(PDF 60KB)
John H. Keene

ABSA News

Tradeline Publications: USDA to Open New Lab and Large Animal Facilities in Iowa(PDF 132KB)

New ABSA Members for 2007(PDF 72KB)

Calendar of Events(PDF 48KB)

ABSA Affiliates and Affiliated Organizations(PDF 212KB)

 

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Graphic image of HIV created by James Whitehead and Cornelia Büchen-Osmond for the Universal Virus database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTVdB). ICTVdB web sites are: http://www.ictvdb.org/, Europe: http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/, China: http://ictvdb.mirror.ac.cn/. Reprinted with permission. The Office of Biotechnology, U.S. National Institutes of Health, has released guidance on the containment for lentiviral vectors, available at http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/rac/Guidance/LentiVirus_Containment/index.htm Evaluating the risk of shedding of replication competent recombinant lentiviral particles by rodents infected with the third generation lentiviral vector system is an industry challenge. The paper by Karlen et al. reconsiders the containment level of animals involved in experiments using lentiviral vectors.