Select Agent/ Toxin List
The list of HHS and USDA Select Agents and Toxins effective October 20th, 2005:
HHS Non-Overlap Select Agents and Toxins
- Abrin
- Cercopithecine herpesvirus (Herpes B virus)
- Coccidioides posadasii
- Conotoxins
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Ebola Viruses
- Lassa fever virus
- Marburg virus
- Monkeypox virus
- Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all eight gene segments (Reconstructed 1918 Influenza virus)
- Ricin
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Saxitoxin
- Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins
- South American haemorrhagic fever viruses
- Flexal
- Guanarito
- Junin
- Machupo
- Sabia
- Tetrodotoxin
- Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses
- Central European tick-borne encephalitis
- Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis
- Kyasanur forest disease
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever
- Russian spring and summer encephalitis
- Variola major virus (Smallpox virus)
- Variola minor virus (Alastrim)
- Yersinia pestis
Overlap Select Agents and Toxins
- Bacillus Anthracis
- Botulinum neurotoxins
- Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
- Brucella abortus
- Brucella melitensis
- Brucella suis
- Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)
- Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
- Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
- Coccidiodes immitis
- Coxiella burnetii
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus
- Francisella tularensis
- Hendra virus
- Nipah Virus
- Rift Valley fever virus
- Shigatoxin
- Staphylococcal enterotoxins
- T-2 toxin
- Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus
USDA Select Agents and Toxins
- African horse sickness virus
- African swine fever virus
- Akabane virus
- Avian influenza virus (highly pathogenic)
- Bluetongue virus (Exotic)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent
- Camel pox virus
- Classical swine fever virus
- Cowdria ruminantium (Heartwater)
- Foot-and-mouth disease virus
- Goat pox virus
- Japanese encephalitis virus
- Lumpy skin disease virus
- Malignant catarrhal fever virus (Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1)
- Menangle virus
- Mycoplasma capricolum/ M.F38 /M. mycoides capri(contagious caprine pleuropneumonia)
- Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
- Newcastle disease virus (velogenic)
- Peste des petits ruminants virus
- Rinderpest virus
- Sheep pox virus
- Swine vesicular disease virus
- Vesicular stomatitis virus (Exotic)
USDA Plant Pathogens
- Candidatus Liberobacter africanus
- Candidatus Liberobacter asiaticus
- Peronosclerospora philippinensis
- Ralstonia solanacearum race 3, biovar 2
- Schlerophthora rayssiae var zeae
- Synchytrium endobioticum
- Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola
- Xylella fastidiosa(citrus variegated chlorosis strain)
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