Designing a Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory for Testing Highly Pathogenic Viruses

The recent spread of novel and highly variant pathogenic viruses, including the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has increased the demand for diagnostic testing for rapid confirmation. This has resulted in investigating the functional capability of each space, and preparing facility guidelines to secure the safety of medical technologists. During viral evaluations, there is a requirement of negative pressure facilities along with thread separation, during pre-treatment of samples and before nucleic acid amplification. Space composition therefore needs to be planned by considering unidirectional air flow. This classification of safety management facilities is designated as biosafety level 2, and personal protective equipment is placed accordingly. In case of handling dangerous materials, they need to be carried out of the biosafety cabinet, and sterilizers are required for suitable disposal of infectious agents. A common feature of domestic laboratories is maintenance of the sample pre-treatment space at a negative pressure of −2.5 Pa or less, and arranging separate pre-treatment and reagent preparation spaces during the test process. We believe that the data generated in this study is meaningful, and offers an efficient direction and detailed flow for separation of the inspection process and space functions. Moreover, this study introduces construction of the laboratory by applying the safety management standards..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

Enthalten in:

Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science - 53(2021), 2, Seite 143-150

Sprache:

Englisch ; Koreanisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tae Won Jung [VerfasserIn]
Jaeyoung Jung [VerfasserIn]
Sunghyun Kim [VerfasserIn]
Young-Kwon Kim [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Highly pathogenic virus test
Medicine (General)
Molecular diagnostic laboratory
Unidirectional work flow

doi:

10.15324/kjcls.2021.53.2.143

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ062780409