Because of the increase in viral hepatitis and HIV-infected patients, all human material (tissue, blood, etc.) is therefore considered as potentially infective. The same rules also regulate the handling of blood products, as Buffy coats, from “healthy persons”. It is most important to avoid blood spill both during your work in the sterile bench and possibly further work as centrifugation etc.
No one at NCMM can handle human material before they are familiar with the instructions for handling human biological materials
HIV-related information
For information on working with HIV-infected samples, please select HIV in the left menu.
Recipe for a happy colleague
Eirik Torheim's guide to ease the work and reduce the stress in the cell labs