[Serum bank as a component of system of biological safety]

The concept of biological safety foresees prevention of potential and real biological hazard at different biorisk levels. In consideration are approaches for creation of a global monitoring, control and prognosis system of socially significant and dangerous infectious diseases with help of informative passported blood sera collection. The basic criteria of effective functioning of serum bank and computer base of the epidemiological data are the subject of discussion in a scope of update WHO requirements. Also new analytical systems for blood sera testing on the basis of protein microchip technology are discussed.