RA 4688 Biosafety Level and Risk Groups

Question 1

Unlikely to cause human diseases

Answer 1

Biosafety Level 1 Lab

Question 2

Laboratories that handle broad-spectrum of moderate risk agents

Answer 2

Biosafety Level 2 Lab

Question 3

Laboratories that handle agents that has the potential to be transmitted via respiratory routes

Answer 3

Biosafety Level 3

Question 4

Laboratories that handle agents that can be transmitted through air and has no available vaccine

Answer 4

Biosafety Level 4

Question 5

PPE only

Answer 5

Biosafety Level 1

Question 6

PPE and secondary barriers

Answer 6

Biosafety Level 2

Question 7

PPE with biosafety cabinate

Answer 7

Biosafety Level 2

Question 8

PPE, Secondary Barrier and Aerosol Generation Chamber

Answer 8

Biosafety Level 3

Question 9

Full-body, air-supplied postiive-pressure units, provided with specialized ventilation

Answer 9

Biosafety Level 4

Question 10

Agents that are not associated with disease in healthy adult humans

Answer 10

Risk Group 1

Question 11

Agents that are associated with human disease are rarely serious (therapeutic interventions are often available)

Answer 11

Risk Group 2

Question 12

Agents that associated with serious or lethal diseases (therapeutic intervention are may be available)

Answer 12

Risk Group 3

Question 13

Agents that likely to cause serious or lethal human diseases (therapeutic intervention are not usually available)

Answer 13

Risk Group 4

Question 14

Ebola Virus, Marburg Virus, Lassa Virus

Answer 14

Risk Group 4

Question 15

HIV, Bacillus anthracis, M. tuberculosis

Answer 15

Risk Group 3

Question 16

Salmonella spp. HSV, Adenovirus, S. aureus

Answer 16

Risk Group 2

Question 17

B. subtilis, E. coli, Adeno-associated viruses

Answer 17

Risk Group 1