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Record Nr.

UNINA9911004705203321

Titolo

Sampling for biological agents in the environment

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : ASM Press, 2008

ISBN

1-55581-747-5

1-61344-261-0

Disciplina

363.325

Soggetti

Biological monitoring

Biological weapons

Environmental sampling

Biological Warfare - prevention & control

Bacteria - isolation & purification

Environmental Exposure - prevention & control

Specimen Handling - methods

Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Toxicology & Public Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Missteps and mistakes: lessons learned from real-world incidents / Peter Emanuel -- Getting started: planning the sample mission / Mark Durno, Myles Bartos, and Jack Kelly -- Sampling teams / Daniel Martin and Anthony Intrepido -- The role of sampling in the phases of a biological event: fact and fiction in an airport scenario / Matt Gillen -- Surface sampling / Anne Busher, Judith Noble-Wang, and Laura Rose -- Indoor and outdoor air sampling / Kristin Omberg and Linda Stetzenbach -- Environmental samples as evidence: labeling and documentation at a crime scene / Steven Drielak -- Sample packaging and transport: biosafety from cradle to grave / Nick Cirino and David Cook -- Laboratory resources / Jason W. Roos and Christina Egan -- Environmental sampling today: advances since the 2001 anthrax attacks / Dorothy Canter.