Being a woman researcher in dangerous laboratories: biosafety level 3 and tuberculosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies on the tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus require a biosafety level 3 laboratory. This study aims to investigate the gender distribution of researchers working in the most hazardous tuberculosis laboratory.

Methods

In this study, the original articles indexed in Web of Science between 1970 and 2021, which include phenotypic testing methods in which the susceptibility results of drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis are determined, were reviewed.

Results

As a result of our analysis, it was found that female researchers were included as first name in the publications at a rate of 49%, unlike other fields of science, and 51% came from lower-middle-income and upper-middle-income countries. According to the incidence rates an

SUBMITTER: Yıldırım K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12551203 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature