The center will include a floor where medical personnel can train in the highly specialized field of
biological containment, and also double as a secure facility for quarantining actual patients, if needed, said Dr.
'In this context, the governments of Lagos State and Canada joined together to design and build a new
biological containment laboratory and secure storage facility,'' she said.
In particular, molecular cloning has become a common activity, and the ability to develop genetically modified organisms has migrated from the confines of secure
biological containment suites onto the open benches of undergraduate teaching labs.
Samples from patients are an extreme biohazard risk; testing should be conducted under maximum
biological containment conditions.
has introduced inflatable AirBeam Enclosures for quick set-up Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) shielded, Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) shielded, or Chemical
Biological Containment (CBC) enclosures, configured to rapidly deploy and provide an instant and uncomplicated state-of-the-art environment.
The quarantine facility will be especially complex because of the need for both clean-room conditions and
biological containment. Clean-room conditions would protect the samples from mission-borne microbes from Earth that could alter the samples' properties (and hence render them useless to scientists), while
biological containment would protect Earth from any potentially hazardous organisms the samples may bear.