Journal de bioterrorisme et de biodéfense

Abstrait

Diagnostics of Biological Warfare Agents and Biosafety Issues

Battle Alexis

Bioterrorism events have been rare until recently multitudinous clinical laboratories may not be familiar with handling samples from a possible bioterrorism attack. Therefore, they should be alive of their own arrears and limitations in the handling and treatment of analogous samples and what to do if they are requested to exercise clinical samples. The centers for disease control and prevention has developed the laboratory response network to give an organized response system for the discovery and opinion of natural warfare agents predicated on laboratory testing capacities and installations. There are potentially multitudinous natural warfare agents, but presumably a limited number of agents would be encountered in case of an attack, and their identification and laboratory safety will be bandied. A great variety of natural agents could potentially be used for natural warfare, but fortunately only a numerous agents can be efficiently circulated in the community. As well as being easily dispersed (1 μm-5 μm patches), the ‘ideal’ natural agents should be largely murderous, easily produced in large quantities, stable, rather transmitted by the aerosol route or from person to person, resistant to standard antibiotics and not preventable by vaccination.