Table 1 Agricultural Select Agent Program High Consequence Livestock and Plant Pathogens and Toxins

From: USDA and HHS publish final regulations for select agents and toxins

USDA only agents and toxins

USDA/HHS overlap agents and toxins

Livestock

• African horse sickness virus

Bacillus anthracis

• African swine fever virus

• Botulinum neurotoxins

• Akabane virus

• Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium

• Avian influenza virus (highly pathogenic)

Brucella abortus

• Bluetongue virus (exotic)

Brucella melitensis

• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent

Brucella suis

• Camel pox virus

Burkholderia mallei

• Classical swine fever virus

Burkholderia pseudomallei

Cowdria ruminantium (Heartwater)

Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin

• Foot-and-mouth disease virus

Coccidioides immitis

• Goat pox virus

Coxiella burnetii

Plants

Liberobacter africanus

• Eastern equine encephalitis virus

Liberobacter asiaticus

Francisella tularensis

Peronosclerospora philippinesis

• Hendra virus

Ralstonia solanacearum, race 3, biovar 2

• Nipah virus

Sclerophthora rayssiae var. zeae

• Rift Valley fever virus

Synchytrium endobioticum

• Shigatoxin

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola

• Staphylococcal enterotoxins

Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)

• T-2 toxin

• Japanese encephalitis virus

• Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

• Lumpy skin disease virus

 

• Malignant catarrhal fever virus (exotic)

 

• Menangle virus

 

Mycoplasma capricolum /M.F38/M. mycoides capri (contagious caprine o 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)