Posters

INACTIVATION OF SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS: META-ANALYSIS OF PUBLISHED LITERATURE (ID #1)
Althea C. Treacy, Adam Clarkson, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

CYCLE DEVELOPMENT OF VAPORIZED HYDROGEN PEROXIDE DECONTAMINATION UNDER NEGATIVE ROOM EXHAUST CONDITIONS IN THE CONTAINMENT LEVEL 3 LABORATORY (ID #2)
Joanna Spinato, Aurel Tamburri, Public Health Ontario Laboratories, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MECHANICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF AN AGING LIQUID EFFLUENT DECONTAMINATION SYSTEM (ID #3)
Rebecca V. Anderson, Thomas Arminio, Nancy P. Hoe, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT

EFFICACY OF UV LIGHT FOR DECONTAMINATING SAFETY GLASSES (ID #4)(PDF 1MB)
Amy F. Helgerson, Bethzayda Matos, Anne M. Dombroski-Brokman, Steven J. Ziegenfuss, James S. Dickson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

ENHANCING THE ANTIBACTERIAL EFFICIENCY OF SILVER-CONTAINING MAGNETIC NANOCOMPOSITES THROUGH EDTA SURFACE PASSIVATION (ID #5)(PDF 276KB)
Kristin Victry, Matthew Correnti, Cynthia Warner, Janine Hutchison, Timothy Droubay, Marvin Warner, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEPA FILTERS ON DNA (ID #6)
Kara F. Held, PhD, The Baker Company, Sanford, ME
Dan Ghidoni, NESA, Sanford, ME
Tania Spenlinhauer, Joan Gordon, Steven Nesbitt, Maine Molecular Quality Controls, Inc., Saco, ME

ACCOMPLISHING ABSL-2+ IN DIFFERENT FACILITIES (ID #7)(PDF 509KB)
Kalpana Patel, Maureen Thompson, Yerkes National Research Primate Center, Atlanta, GA

ROLE OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN THE PROMOTION OF BIOLOGICAL SAFETY AND SECURITY AFRICA (ID #8)
Esther N. Kioko, Bernard Angwanda, Peter Njoroge, Simon Musila, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

APHL BIOSAFETY PEER NETWORK (ID #9)(PDF 476KB)
Michael Marsico, Brit Hart, Sean Page, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN MICE: PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND HANDLING OF CAGES/BEDDING (ID #10)
Kathleen Azzam, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULAR LABORATORY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TOOL FOR REGIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES IN EGYPT (ID#11)
Walaa Mohamed Kandeel, Central Public Health Laboratories, Albeheira Regional Laboratory, Albeheira, Damanhour, Egypt
Dalal Moneir El Sayed, Central Public Health Laboratories, Cairo, Egypt
Benjamin Fontes, Yale University EHS, New Haven, CT

HAND HYGIENE TRENDS AMONG FUTURE HEALTH CARE WORKERS WITH REFERENCE TO KAP &LT KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE&GT (ID #12)
Shamsul A. Qasmi, Karachi Institute of Medical Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
Sarmad Pirzada, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

NATIONAL BIOSAFETY MONTH CAMPAIGNS AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (ID #13)
Catherine M. Mancini, Irene Mendoza, Giorgio Scapellini, Leon Igras, David Gillum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

PLAN, DO, CHECK, ACT AT WORK IN ANIMAL FACILITY INSPECTIONS (ID #14)
Alaina Whitton, Kalpana Rengarajan, Patricia Olinger, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

ASSESSMENT OF BIOSAFETY PRACTICES IN THREE VETERINARY CLINICS (ID #15)
Bonodong Zongnukuu Guri, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Accra, Ghana

PERFORMANCE OF ACCESS CONTROLS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (ID #16)
Susan Boggs, Susan Caskey, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

IMPLEMENTATION OF A BIOLOGICAL INVENTORY SYSTEM IN THE EGYPT CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY (ID #17)
Abeer Abdelaziz, Central Public Health Laboratory, Cairo, Egypt
Maureen O’Leary, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH

BIORISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND TRAINING NEEDS IN EAST AFRICA (ID #18)(PDF 1MB)
Julie A. Wilder, Susan E. Boggs, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
Giulio M. Mancini, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
Timothy Wakabi, One Health Central and Eastern Africa, Kampala, Uganda

BIORISK ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC, HEALTH AND ACADEMIC LABORATORIES IN ZAMBOANGA CITY, PHILIPPINES (ID #19)
Marilou C. Elago, Mario R. Obra Jr., Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga City, Philippines

DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOSAFETY TRAINING PROGRAM WITH INSTRUCTOR GUIDE FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE RABAT, MOROCCO (ID #20)
Rhizlane Selka, Institute National D’Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco
Benjamin Fontes, Yale University EHS, New Haven, CT

USING A MOBILE TRAINING KIT TO PROMOTE BIOSAFETY, BIOSECURITY, AND EGBSA (ID #21)(PDF 2MB)
Emad Rizkalla Zaki, Animal Health Research Institute, Giza, Egypt
Betsy Matos, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

PATHWAY TO CAPACITY BUILDING FOR BIORISK MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA (ID #22)(PDF 175KB)
Abiodun A. Denloye, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria
Ibiang Livinus, Nigeria Biological Safety Association, Abuja, Nigeria
Stella Udo, Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
Tubi Abiola, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria
Eric Cook, Cecilia William, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

BIOPRISM: A LABORATORY BIOSAFETY TRAINING INITIATIVE BY PAKISTAN BIOLOGICAL SAFETY ASSOCIATION (ID #23)(PDF 2MB)
Akbar Ali, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
Saima Saleem, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
Javed Muhammad, Aamer Ikram, Pakistan Biological Safety Association, Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
Sean G Kaufman, Behavioral-Based Improvement Solutions (BBIS), Atlanta, GA

BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY CAPACITY BUILDING IN UGANDA (ID #24)(PDF 762KB)
Evelien Kampert, Mark van Passel, Harold van den Berg, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands

DEVELOPMENT OF A BIORISK MANAGEMENT TRAINING CURRICULUM IN LIBYA (ID #25)
Angela Birnbaum, Tulane University, Covington, LA
Omar Elahmer, National Centre for Disease Control, Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

EVALUATION OF NINE POSITIVE-PRESSURE SUITS FOR USE IN THE BIOSAFETY LEVEL 4 LABORATORY (ID #26)
Samantha Kasloff, Peter Marszal, Hana Weingartl, Biosafety Level 4 Zoonotic Laboratory Network, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada