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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.

The Non Users Select Agent Training is anonline course which provides information and a quiz for non users working in a designated select agent laboratory. Upon completion of the course you will receive a training certificate.

42 CFR Part 73
Select Agents
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Viruses
Toxins
Bacteria
Fungi
APHIS Plant Pathogens
USDA High Consequence Livestock Pathogen Or Toxin

Viruses

Cercopithecine herpes virus1 (Herpes B virus)
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
Eastern equine encephalitis virus
Ebola viruses
Hendra virus
Lassa fever virus
Marburg virus
Monkeypox virus
Nipah virus
Rift Valley fever virus
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 (Alastrim)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

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Toxins

Abrin
Botulinum neurotoxins
Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
Conotoxins
Diacetoxyscirpenol
Ricin
Saxitoxin
Shigatoxin
Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins
Staphylococcal enterotoxins
Tetrodotoxin
T–2 toxin

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Bacteria

Bacillus anthracis
Botulinum neurotoxin producing strains of Clostridium
Brucella abortus
Brucella melitensis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia mallei
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Coxiella burnetii
Francisella tularensis
Rickettsia prowazekii
Rickettsia rickettsii
Yersinia pestis

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Fungi

Coccidioides immitis
Coccidioides posadasii

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APHIS Plant Pathogens

Plum pox potyvirus
Liberobacter africanus,
Liberobacter asiaticus
Ralstonia solanacearum Race 3
Peronosclerospora philippinensis
Phakopsora pachyrhizi
Sclerophthora rayssiae var zeae
Synchytrium endobioticum
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola
Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)

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USDA High Consequence Livestock Pathogen Or Toxin

African horse sickness virus
African swine fever virus
Akabane virus
Avian influenza virus (highly pathogenic)
Blue tongue virus (exotic)
Camel pox virus
Classical swine fever virus
Foot and mouth disease virus
Goat pox virus
Japanese encephalitis virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Malignant catarrhal fever
Menangle virus
Newcastle disease virus (exotic)
Peste des petits ruminants
Rinderpest virus
Sheep pox
Swine vesicular disease virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus (exotic)
Cowdria Ruminantium (Heartwater)
Mycoplasma capricolu/M. F38/M. mycoides capri (contagious caprine pleuropneumonia agent)
Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia agent)

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