Bioterrorism agents

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Security Sensitive Biological Agent (SSBA)

Viruses

  • Andes virus
  • Chapare virus
  • Chikungunya virus
  • Choclo virus
  • Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever virus
  • Dobrava-Belgrade virus
  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus
  • Ebola virus
  • Guanarito virus
  • Hantaan virus
  • Hendra virus (Equine morbillivirus)
  • Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
  • Japanese encephalitis virus
  • Junin virus
  • Kyasanur Forest virus
  • Laguna Negra virus
  • Lassa fever virus
  • Louping ill virus
  • Lujo virus
  • Machupo virus
  • Marburg virus
  • Monkey pox virus
  • Murray Valley encephalitis virus
  • Nipah virus
  • Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus
  • Oropouche virus
  • Powassan virus
  • Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus
  • Rift Valley fever virus
  • Rocio virus
  • Sabia virus
  • Seoul virus
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV)
  • Sin nombre virus
  • St Louis encephalitis virus
  • Tick-borne encephalitis virus (Russian Spring-Summer encephalitis virus)
  • Variola virus
  • Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
  • Western equine encephalitis virus
  • Yellow fever virus

Bacteria

  • Bacillus anthracis, B. abortus, B. melitensis, and B. suis
  • Chlamydophila psittaci (formerly known as Chlamydia psittaci)
  • Francisella tularensis
  • Burkholderia mallei (Pseudomonas mallei) and B. pseudomallei (P. pseudomallei)
  • Yersinia pestis
  • Coxiella burnetii
  • Rickettsia prowazekii

Fungi

  • Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii

Toxins

  • Alpha toxin (5 mg)
  • Botulinum neurotoxin (0.5 mg)
  • Cholera toxin (20 mg)
  • Clostridium botulinum C2 and C3 toxins (5 mg)
  • Clostridium perfringens Epsilon toxin (5 mg)
  • Hemolysin (10 mg)
  • Shiga-like toxin (verotoxin) (1 mg)
  • Shigatoxin (1mg)
  • Staphylococcus enterotoxins, Type B (1 mg)
  • Staphylococcus enterotoxins, types other than Type B (10 mg)
  • Staphylococcus aureus Toxic shock syndrome toxin (5 mg)

CDC Categories

Category A

  • Anthrax
  • Botulism
  • Plague
  • Smallpox
  • [[../../Organisms/Bacteria/Gram-negative/Coccobacilli/Tularemia.md|Tularemia]]
  • Viral hemorrhagic fevers, including filoviruses (Ebola, Marburg) and arenaviruses (Lassa, Machupo)

Category B

  • Brucellosis
  • Epsilon toxin of Clostridum perfringens
  • Food safety threats including Salmonella spp, E. coli O157:H7, and Shigella
  • Glanders
  • Melioidosis
  • Psittacosis
  • Q fever
  • Ricin roxin from Ricinus communis
  • Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
  • Typhus fever
  • Viral encephalitis (alphaviruses)
  • Water safety threats (Vibrio cholerae, Cryptosporidium parvum)

Category C

  • Emerging infectious diseases such as Nipah virus and hantavirus