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At College of the Canyons we are very concerned about safety in our Intro to Microbiology labs. Safety is more important than anything else and many of our rules, techniques, and behaviors we teach are to ensure the safety of our students, staff, instructors, etc. In 2013 the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) established guidelines for teaching labs. Most of the organisms we use in our labs are BSL-1;however, we follow the BSL-2 guidelines because we feel that they instruct students on preferred safety procedures and we occasionally use Staphylococcus aureus, a BSL-2 bacterium. ASM worked on guidelines due to infections acquired from clinical and teaching labs, noted below. The organism in question is a BSL 2 bacterium and is NOT used in our laboratories.

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