Work in a medical or research laboratory handling pathogens

Medical or Dental Services

CDC - Biosafety in Laboratories

Pathogens

Diseases associated with this job task:

• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• African Trypanosomiasis
• Anthrax
• Arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers (S. America)
• B-virus meningoencephalitis
• Boutonneuse fever
• Brucellosis
• Coccidioidomycosis
• Colorado tick fever
• Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
• Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
• Ebola-Marburg viral diseases
• Glanders
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
• Hendra and Nipah viral diseases
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Histoplasmosis
• Kyasanur forest disease
• Lassa fever
• Legionellosis
• Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
• Melioidosis
• Meningococcal infection
• Omsk hemorrhagic fever
• Pertussis
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Psittacosis
• Q fever
• Rabies
• Rickettsialpox
• Rift valley fever
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Smallpox
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Typhoid fever
• Typhus, mite-borne scrub
• Vesicular stomatitis fever
• Viral encephalitides, mosquito-borne
• Viral encephalitides, tick-borne
• Yellow fever

Jobs associated with this job task:

• Biology Technicians
• Medical & Clinical Laboratory Technicians
• Medical & Clinical Laboratory Technologists
• Medical Scientists
• Microbiologists