Select agent

In United States law, select agents are biological agents or biological toxins which have been declared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have the "potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety". The Centers for Disease Control administers the Select Agent Program (SAP), which regulates the laboratories which may possess, use, or transfer select agents within the United States. The SAP was established to satisfy requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, which were enacted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks.

The active use of select agents in biomedical research prompts concerns about dual use. The federal government has created the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a critical component of a set of federal initiatives to promote biosecurity in life science research. This advisory board is composed of government, education and industry experts who provide policy recommendations on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security.

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List of select agents

HHS select agents and toxins

Central European tick-borne encephalitis Far Eastern tick-borne encephalitis Kyasanur Forest disease Omsk hemorrhagic Fever Russian spring and summer encephalitis

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 select agents and toxins

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

Japanese encephalitis virus

Lumpy skin disease virus

Malignant catarrhal fever virus (Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1)

Menangle virus

Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae (contagious 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 1

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)

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