Select Agents Flashcards
1
Q
What are the USDA Vet Services Select Agents and Toxins? (13) Which are also Tier 1 agents?
A
- African swine fever
- Classical swine fever
- Foot and mouth disease (T1)
- Swine vesicular disease
- Avian influenza (excludes low path strains)
- Newcastle disease (if virulent)
- Goat pox
- Sheep pox
- Rhinderpest (T1)
- Lumpy skin disease virus
- Peste des petits ruminants
- Mycoplasma capricolum ss. capripneumonia (CCP)
- Mycoplasma mycoides ss mycoides small colony (CBP)
2
Q
What are the Overlap Select Agents and Toxins? (8) Which are also Tier 1 agents?
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- Bacillus anthracis (1)
- Bacillus anthracis Pasteur strain
- Burkholderia mallei (1)
- Burkholderia pseudomallei (1)
- Hendra
- Nipah (1)
- Rift Valley fever
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis (only Subtypes IAB or IC)
3
Q
What are the HHS Select Toxins? (10) Which are also Tier 1 agents?
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- Abrin
- Botulinum neurotoxins (1)
- Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium (1)
- Conotoxins
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Ricin
- Saxitoxin
- Staphylococcal enterotoxins (A, B, C, D, E)
- T-2 toxin
- Tetrodotoxin
4
Q
What are the HHS Select Bacterial Agents? (5) Which are also Tier 1 agents?
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- Bacillus cereus Biovar anthracis (1)
- Coxiella burnetii
- Francisella tularensis (1)
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Yersinia pestis (1)
5
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What are the HHS Select Viral Agents? (21) Which are also Tier 1 agents?
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- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
- Lassa fever
- Omsk hemorrhagic fever
- South American hemorrhagic fever viruses: Chapare, Guanarito, Junin, Machupo, Sabia
- Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses: Far Eastern, Siberian subtype
- Ebolavirus (1)
- Marburg (1)
- Monkeypox (excludes Clade II)
- SARS CoV
- SARS CoV/SARS CoV-2 chimeric viruses
- Replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all 8 gene segments
- Eastern equine encephalitis
- Kyasanur Forest disease
- Variola major (Smallpox) (1)
- Variola minor (Alastrim) (1)
- Lujo
