Guidance on the Regulation of Select Agent and Toxin Nucleic Acids

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Division of Select Agents and Toxins. 03/2017 This resource provides guidance to entities that create or use nucleic acids that are capable of producing infectious forms of select agent viruses or encode for the toxic form(s) of any select toxins if the nucleic acids can be expressed in vivo or in vitro, or are in a vector or recombinant host genome and can be expressed in vivo or in vitro. These include complete genomes, as well as recombinant and/or synthetic nucleic acids. (Text)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news