NATIONAL GUIDELINES ON BIOSAFETY FOR TB LABORATORIES

The role of laboratories at different levels includes services for the management of individual patients, programmatic activities which includes monitoring trends of drug resistance and surveillance. To carry out these functions TB diagnostic network requires minimum biosafety measures that should be implemented at different levels of testing to reduce the risk of a laboratory acquired infection.

This national guideline on TB laboratory biosafety is developed in line with global recommendations to provide appropriate guidance on biosafety at all levels of TB laboratories in the country.