Program for Control Select Agents & Toxins


HHS Select Agents and Toxins

Due to reporting and monitoring requirements implemented by the CDC and the USDA regulating the use or possession of certain biological agents and toxins, the USU Purchasing Card may not be used when ordering the items listed below:

Virsuses

  • Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever virus
  • Ebola viruses
  • Cerocopithecine Her0esvirus 1 (Herpes B virus)
  • Lassa Fever virus
  • Marburg virus
  • Monkeypox virus
  • South American Haemorrhagic Fever viruses: (Junin, Machupo, Sabia, Flexal, Guanarito)
  • Tick-borne Encephalitis Complex (flavi) viruses: (Central European Tickborne Encephalitis, Far Eastern Tickborne Encephalitis, {Russian Spring and Summer Encephalitis. Kyasanur Forest Diease, Omsk Hemmorhagic Fever})
  • Variola Major virus (Smallpox virus) and Variola Minor virus (Alastrim)

Bacteria

  • Rickettsia prowazekii
  • Rickettsia rickettsii
  • Yersinia pestis

Fungi

  • Coccidioides posadasii

Toxins

  • Abrin, 100 mg
  • Conotoxins, 100 mg.
  • Diacetoxyscirpenal, 1,000 mg.
  • Ricin, 100 mg.
  • Saxitoxin, 100 mg.
  • Tetrodotoxin, 100 mg.
  • Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins, 100 mg

Overlap (HHS/USDA) Select Agents and Toxins

Viruses

  • Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus
  • Nipah and Hendra Complex viruses
  • Rift Valley Fever Virus
  • Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus

Bacteria

  • Bacillus anthracis
  • Brucella abortus
  • Burcella melitensis
  • Brucella suis
  • Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)
  • Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
  • Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
  • Coxiella burnetii
  • Franisella tularensis

Fungi

  • Coccidioides immitis

Toxins

  • Botulinum neurotoxins, 0.5 mg.
  • Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin, 100 mg.
  • Shigatoxin, 100 mg.
  • Staphylococcal enterotoxins, 5 mg.
  • T-2 toxin, 1,000 mg.

Animal Select Agents

  • 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 ruminatium (Heartwater)
  • Foor-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 pleuropneumonia)
  • Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
  • Newcastle disease virus (VVND)
  • Peste des petits ruminants virus
  • Rinderpest virus
  • Sheep pox virus
  • Swine vesicular disease virus
  • Vesicular stomatitis virus (exotic)

Anyone who wishes to purchase these items must first fill out a REQUISITION (regardless of the dollar amount) and submit it to Gene Higham.  He will then obtain the required permission from the Environmental Health and Safety Office before ordering the needed items.  Please contact Gene at 7-1039 or email to: eugene.higham@usu.edu with any questions.