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Prior to ordering or working with select agent material, you must contact the Division of Occupational Health and Safety Select Agent Manager at (301) 496-2960 or via e-mail at nihselectagentprogram@mail.nih.gov.

 42 CFR Part 73
Select Agents
Department of Health and Human Services
 

HHS Select Agents and Toxins

Abrin

Botulinum neurotoxins

Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium

Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (Herpes B virus)

Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin

Coccidioides posadasii/Coccidioides immitis

Conotoxins

Coxiella burnetii

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus

Diacetoxyscirpenol

Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus

Ebola virus

Francisella tularensis

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 rickettsi

Saxitoxin

Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins

Shigatoxin

South American Haemorrhagic Fever viruses

Flexal

Guanarito

Junin

Machupo

Sabia

Staphylococcal enterotoxins

T-2 toxin

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

Brucella abortus

Brucella melitensis

Brucella suis

Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)

Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallei)

Hendra virus

Nipah virus

Rift Valley fever virus

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus

USDA Veterinary Services (VS) Select Agents

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 ruminantium (Heartwater)

Foot-and-mouth disease virus

Goat pox virus

Lumpy skin disease

Malignant catarrhal fever virus

(Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1)

Menangle virus

Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae

(Contangious caprine pleuropneumonia)

Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides small colony (Mmm SC) (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)

Peste des petits ruminants virus

Rinderpest virus

Sheep pox virus

Swine vesicular disease virus

Vesicular stomatitis virus (exotic): Indiana subtypes VSV-IN2, VSV-IN3

Virulent Newcastle disease virus

USDA Plant Protection And Quarantine (PPQ) Select Agents and Toxins

Peronosclerospora philippinensis (Peronosclerospora sacchari)

Phoma glycinicola (formerly Pyrenochaeta glycines)

Ralstonia solanacearum race 3, biovar 2

Rathayibacter toxicus

Sclerophthora rayssiae var zeae

Synchytrium endobioticum

Xanthomonas oryzae

Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)