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Biothreat agents

Incubation periods and clinical signs for the biothreat agents that are capable of infecting both humans and animals, in both domestic animals and wildlife.

HHS SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS

• Abrin
• Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (Herpes B virus)
• Coccidioides posadasii
• Conotoxins
• Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
• Diacetoxyscirpenol
• Ebola viruses
• Lassa fever virus
• Marburg virus
• Monkeypox virus
• Ricin
• Rickettsia prowazekii
• Rickettsia rickettsii
• Saxitoxin
• South American Haemorrhagic Fever viruses
  • Flexal
  • Guanarito
  • Junin
  • Machupo
• Tetrodotoxin
• Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses
  • Central European Tick-borne encephalitis
  • Far-Eastern Tick-Borne Encephalitis
  • Kyasanur Forest Disease
  • Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
• Variola major virus (Smallpox virus)
• Variola minor virus (Alastrim)
• Yersinia pestis

OVERLAP SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS

• Bacillus anthracis
• 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
• Coccidioides 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
• Ehrlichia (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 PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE (PPQ) SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS

• 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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[ This page was last updated on Monday, January 29, 2007. ]