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Infectious material, c*inued -3- L. Restrict travel in and out of the TB room. M. Health of personnel - TB lab. personnel should be healthy. Fatigue, emotional stress, malnutrition all reduce resistance to TB. Tuberculin testing on negative reactors should be done every 3-6 months. X-rays should be taken on positive reactors every year. N. Accidental contamination - cover area with phenol (ophene) soaked paper towels. Flood with phenol (ophene). Leave hood fan running and evacuate personnel from the room for 30 minutes. IX. Precautions: hepatitis antigen and antibody testing A. Gloves should be worn. B. Cover street clothes - disposable gowns are recommended to cover all clothing. C. Cover work areas with plastic -backed absorbent paper. Dispose of this by autoclaving when finished. D. Clean up all spills with 25% Clorox. Allow to stand 5-10 minutes. E. Autoclave all disposable material used before discarding. F. Autoclave all reagent bottles containing antigen before discarding. X. All specimens collected from possible hepatitis patients should be marked with yellow preprinted tape. XI. Disposal of microbiological wastes: A. Contaminated culture specimens and media. 1. Place all material for disposal in autoclavable bags in containers marked TO BE AUTOCLAVED. 2. Specimen AFB centrifuge supernatants will be discarded into the dis- posable containers provided. Pour some phenol into container before using. 3. Lab. housekeeper will pick up containers, tie the bags, and load material into autoclave. EXCEPTION: All material from the mycobacterium lab. includine the waste paper basket will be taken to the autoclave by the tech who is already masked and gowned, at the end of working day. It is to be placed in autoclave and sign "Not Autoclaved TB Material" placed on the autoclave. ?� 4. All material, with the following exception , will be autoclaved%otr,J minutes with 15 lb. pressure, at 121 degrees C. Mycobacteriology lab.��°C material will be autoclaved for 45 minutes. Indicator tags will be _( placed on all bags to insure that material is decontaminated. All material that is disposable is to be placed in a paper Ecolo bag. When full the bags will be stapled shut and removed to the trash compactor. The trash compacted material is removed to a sanitary landfill disposal site and dumped. 5. All fungus cultures are placed in a metal can marked "FUNGUS CULTURE TO BE AUTOCLAVED". These are autoclaved as above on three different days to insure decontamination. If disposable discard as above B. Blood specimens for discard and all other blood contaminated material: 1. This will be placed in waxed cartons in the lab. department marked "TO BE AUTOCLAVED."