According to the WHO, outbreak investigations are meant to detect what is causing the outbreak, how the pathogenic agent is transmitted, where it all started from, what is the carrier, what is the population at risk of getting infected and what are the risk factors.
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In agricultural facilities, the definition for biocontainment resembles that for biosafety, i . e ., the safety practices and procedures used to prevent unintended infection of plants or animals or the release of high-consequence pathogenic agents into the environment ( air, soil, or water ).
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IITRI's Microbiology and Molecular Biology Division operates both Biosafety Level-2 and Biosafety Level-3 laboratories for " in vitro " and " in vivo " studies, and is approved by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) to conduct studies with a broad range of pathogenic agents.
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In a phytosanitary context, the term plant pest, or simply pest, refers to any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products and includes plant pathogenic bacteria, fungi, fungus-like organisms, viruses and virus like organisms, as well as insects, mites, nematodes and weeds.
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He also took part in the development in the first immune serum against the bubonic plague ( black pest ), in collaboration with the discoverer of its pathogenic agent, " Yersinia pestis ", by Alexandre Yersin ( 1863 1943 ), and went to Portugal to study and to help fight an epidemic at Oporto.
