 
      
Appendix A to Part 72-Select
Agents
Viruses
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus
- Ebola viruses
- Equine Morbillivirus
- Lassa fever virus
- Marburg virus
- Rift Valley fever virus
- South American Haemorrhagic fever viruses (Junin, Machupo, Sabia,
Flexal, Guanarito)
- Tick-borne encephalitis complex viruses
- Variola major virus (Smallpox virus)
- Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus
- Viruses causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- Yellow fever virus
Exemptions: Vaccine strains of viral agents (Junin Virus strain
candid #1, Rift Valley fever virus strain MP-12, Venezuelan Equine encephalitis
virus strain TC-83, Yellow fever virus strain 17-D) are exempt.
Bacteria
- Bacillus anthracis
- Brucella abortus, B. melitensis, B. suis
- Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) mallei
- Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei
- Clostridium botulinum
- Francisella tularensis
- Yersinia pestis
Exemptions: vaccine strains as described in Title 9 CFR, Part
78.1 are exempt.
Rickettsiae
- Coxiella burnetii
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Rickettsia rickettsii
Fungi
- Coccidioides immitis
Toxins
- Abrin
- Aflatoxins
- Botulinum toxins
- Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
- Conotoxins
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Ricin
- Saxitoxin
- Shigatoxin
- Staphylococcal enterotoxins
- Tetrodotoxin
- T-2 toxin
Exemptions: Toxins for medical use, inactivated for use as
vaccines, or toxin preparations for biomedical research use at an LD50
for vertebrates of more than 100 nanograms per kilogram body weight
are exempt. National standard toxins required for biologic potency testing
as described in 9 CFR Part 113 are exempt.
Recombinant organisms/molecules
- Genetically modified microorganisms or genetic elements from organisms
on Appendix A, shown to produce or encode for a factor associated
with a disease.
- Genetically modified microorganisms or genetic elements that contain
nucleic acid sequences coding for any of the toxins listed in this
Appendix, or their toxic subunits.
This information was compiled and created by Val
Steinberg and David Gillum
at the Department of Environmental Health and Safety at the University
of Massachusetts - Amherst.
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