Q’s and A’s About the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002: Possession, Use, and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins

Select Agent and Toxin List

USDA only agents and toxins

Livestock
• 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
• Cowdria ruminantium (Heartwater)
• Foot-and-mouth disease virus
• Goat pox virus
• Japanese 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)

Plants
• Candidatus Liberobacter africanus
• Candidatus Liberobacter asiaticus
• Peronosclerospora philippinesis
• Ralstonia solanacearum, race 3, biovar 2
• Sclerophthora rayssiae var. zeae
• Synchytrium endobioticum
• Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola
• Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)

USDA/HHS overlap agents and toxins
• Bacillus anthracis
• Botulinum neurotoxins
• Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
• Brucella abortus
• Brucella melitensis
• Brucella suis
• Burkholderia mallei
• Burkholderia 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

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