biosafety level 3

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   exposure to infectious agents that can be transmitted by the respiratory route and which can cause serious infection

   Broaderbiosafety level

Questions about biosafety level 3

What does biosafety level 3 mean?

biosafety level 3 means "exposure to infectious agents that can be transmitted by the respiratory route and which can cause serious infection".

Is biosafety level 3 a common word?

biosafety level 3 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.