Inspection of the FBI's Security Risk Assessment Program
for Individuals Requesting Access to Biological Agents and Toxins

E&I Report No. I-2005-003
March 2005
Office of the Inspector General


Appendix 1

List of Select Agents and Toxins


I. HHS non-overlap select agents and toxins
  • Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
  • Coccidioides posadasii
  • Ebola viruses
  • Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 [Herpes B virus]
  • Lassa fever virus
  • Marburg virus
  • Monkeypox virus
  • Rickettsia prowazekii
  • Rickettsia rickettsii
    South American haemorrhagic fever viruses
    • Junin
    • Machupo
    • Sabia
    • Flexal
    • Guanarito
    Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses
    • Central European tick-borne encephalitis
    • Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis
    • Russian spring and summer encephalitis
    • Kyasanur forest disease
    • Omsk hemorrhagic fever
  • Variola major virus [Smallpox virus]
  • Variola minor virus [Alastrim]
  • Yersinia pestis
  • Abrin
  • Conotoxins
  • Diacetoxyscirpenol
  • Ricin
  • Saxitoxin
  • Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins
  • Tetrodotoxin
II. USDA high consequence livestock pathogens and toxins (non-overlap agents and toxins)
  • Akabane virus
  • African swine fever virus
  • African horse sickness virus
  • Avian influenza virus [highly pathogenic]
  • Blue tongue virus [Exotic]
  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent
  • Camel pox virus
  • Classical swine fever virus
  • Cowdria ruminantium [Heartwater]
  • Foot and mouth disease virus
  • Goat pox virus
  • Lumpy skin disease virus
  • Japanese encephalitis virus
  • Malignant catarrhal fever virus [Exotic]
  • Menangle virus
  • Mycoplasma capricoluml
  • M.F38/M. mycoides capri
  • Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides
  • Newcastle disease virus [VVND]
  • Peste Des Petits Ruminants virus
  • Rinderpest virus
  • Sheep pox virus
  • Swine vesicular disease virus
  • Vesicular stomatitis virus [Exotic]
III. High consequence livestock pathogens and toxins/select agents (overlap agents)
  • Bacillus anthracis
  • Brucella abortus
  • Brucella melitensis
  • Brucella suis
  • Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)
  • Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallel)
  • Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
  • Coccidioides immitis
  • Coxiella burnetii
  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus
  • Hendra virus
  • Francisella tularensis
  • Nipah Virus
  • Rift Valley fever virus
  • Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
  • Botulinum neurotoxin
  • Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
  • Shigatoxin
  • Staphylococcal enterotoxin
  • T-2 Toxin
IV. Listed plant pathogens
  • Liberobacter africanus
  • Liberobacter asiaticus
  • Peronosclerospora philippinensis
  • Phakopsora pachyrhizi
  • Plum Pox Potyvirus
  • Ralstonia solanacearum race 3, biovar 2
  • Schlerophthora rayssiae var zeae
  • Synchytrium endobioticum
  • Xanthomonas oryzae
  • Xylella fastidiosa [citrus variegated chlorosis strain]