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Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity?
Anxiety about threats from the microbial world and about the deliberate misuse of microorganisms has led to efforts to define and control these dangers using lists and regulations. One list with tremendous legal implications and a potentially huge impact on research is the Select Agents and Toxins L...
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2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20065941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2299 |
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author | Casadevall, Arturo Relman, David A. |
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description | Anxiety about threats from the microbial world and about the deliberate misuse of microorganisms has led to efforts to define and control these dangers using lists and regulations. One list with tremendous legal implications and a potentially huge impact on research is the Select Agents and Toxins List, which was created by the US Government to limit the possession of and access to particular microorganisms and toxins. In this article, in addition to highlighting general problems with taxonomy-based, microorganism-centric lists, we discuss our view that such lists may have the paradoxical effect of increasing the societal vulnerability to biological attack and natural epidemics by interfering with the sharing of microbial samples and hindering research on vaccines and therapeutics. |
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spelling | pubmed-70973912020-03-26 Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? Casadevall, Arturo Relman, David A. Nat Rev Microbiol Article Anxiety about threats from the microbial world and about the deliberate misuse of microorganisms has led to efforts to define and control these dangers using lists and regulations. One list with tremendous legal implications and a potentially huge impact on research is the Select Agents and Toxins List, which was created by the US Government to limit the possession of and access to particular microorganisms and toxins. In this article, in addition to highlighting general problems with taxonomy-based, microorganism-centric lists, we discuss our view that such lists may have the paradoxical effect of increasing the societal vulnerability to biological attack and natural epidemics by interfering with the sharing of microbial samples and hindering research on vaccines and therapeutics. Nature Publishing Group UK 2010-01-11 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC7097391/ /pubmed/20065941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2299 Text en © Nature Publishing Group 2010 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Casadevall, Arturo Relman, David A. Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
title | Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
title_full | Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
title_fullStr | Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
title_full_unstemmed | Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
title_short | Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
title_sort | microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20065941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2299 |
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