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Laboratory Safety:
Handling Viral positive cases in ART
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Laboratory Practice: suggested guidelines
 Cannot identify all viruses or all potentially infected cases  Treat all samples as potentially infected
 Use universal precautions
 Quality Management System should ensure
Robust SOPs to deal with potential unidentified infected cases Areasof controversy
 Sh o u l d v i r a l p o s i t i v e s a m p l e s b e s t o r e d i n s e p a r a t e d e w a r s ?
 Sh o u l d t h e r e b e a s e p a r a t e d e w a r f o r e a c h v i r u s a n d e a c h v i r u s c o m b i n a t i o n ?
 No evidence for cross contamination in liquid nitrogen
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