VS-Regulated Livestock and Poultry Pathogens (Partial List)

Last Modified: November 15, 2024
  • Absidia corymbifera
  • Acremonium strictum
  • Acinetobacter spp. **
  • Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
  • Actinomyces bovis
  • Aedes mosquito
  • Aedes mosquito eggs
  • Aeromonas hydrophila
  • Aeromonas spp. **
  • African horse sickness (only the excluded select agent*)
  • African swine fever (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Akabane virus
  • Alcaligenes faecalis
  • Amblyomma spp. - tick
  • Amidostomum anseri
  • Amycolaptosis spp. **
  • Anaplasma centrale
  • Anaplasma marginale
  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum
  • Anopheles mosquito eggs
  • Anopheles mosquitos
  • Argas spp. - tick
  • Arthrobacter equi
  • Arthrobacter spp. **
  • Ascaridia dissimilis
  • Ascaridia galli
  • Ascaris suum
  • Aspergillus spp. **
  • Avian adenovirus
  • Avian encephalomyelitis virus
  • Avian hepatitis E virus
  • Avian herpesvirus
  • Avian infectious bronchitis virus
  • Avian influenza H7N9 attenuated vaccine
  • Avian influenza H7N9 wild type
  • Avian influenza virus (high pathogenic) (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Avian Influenza virus (low pathogenic)
  • Avian leukosis virus (retrovirus)
  • Avian metapneumoviruses
  • Avian mycoplasma spp. **
  • Avian myelocytomatosis
  • Avian nephritis virus 1,2 (astrovirus)
  • Avian paramyxovirus serotypes 2-9
  • Avian pneumovirus type C (Colorado strain)
  • Avian polyoma virus
  • Avian pox virus
  • Avian reticuloendothelial virus (REV)
  • Avian rotavirus
  • Avian viral arthritis virus (Tenosynovitis; Avian reovirus; Orthoreovirus)
  • Avibacterium paragallinarum
  • Babesia bigemina
  • Babesia bovis
  • Babesia caballi
  • Babesia divergens
  • Babesia major
  • Babesia motasi
  • Babesia ovis
  • Babesia perroncitoi
  • Babesia trautmanni
  • Bacillus anthracis (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Bacillus anthracis, Pasteur strain (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Bacillus cereus, Biovar Anthracis (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Bacteroides fragilis
  • Besnoitia besnoiti
  • Bibersteinia trehalosi (formerly Pasteurella trehalosi)
  • Blastomyces dermatitidis
  • Bluetongue virus (domestic)
  • Bluetongue virus (exotic)
  • Boophilus spp. - tick
  • Border disease virus
  • Bordetella avium
  • Bordetella bronchiseptica
  • Bordetella parapertussis
  • Borna disease virus
  • Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Bovine adenovirus
  • Bovine coronavirus
  • Bovine cytomegalovirus (Bovine herpesvirus 3)
  • Bovine enteric calicivirus
  • Bovine enterovirus (enteric cytopathic bovine orphan virus)
  • Bovine ephemeral fever virus
  • Bovine herpes mammillitis virus (Pseudo-lumpy skin disease; Bovine herpesvirus 2)
  • Bovine immunodeficiency virus
  • Bovine infectious rhinotracheitis virus (Bovine herpesvirus 1)
  • Bovine leukemia virus
  • Bovine nebovirus
  • Bovine norovirus
  • Bovine papillomavirus
  • Bovine papular stomatitis virus
  • Bovine parainfluenzae 3 virus
  • Bovine parvovirus (Haemadsorbing enteric virus)
  • Bovine reovirus
  • Bovine respiratory syncytial virus
  • Bovine rhinitis B virus (Bovine rhinovirus; Picornavirus)
  • Bovine rotavirus group A, B
  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  • Bovine viral diarrhea virus (types 1 and 2) (BVD)
  • Bovine viral diarrhea virus, HoBi-like strain
  • Brachyspira hyodisenteriae
  • Brucella abortus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Brucella abortus strain 19
  • Brucella abortus strain RB51
  • Brucella melitensis (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Brucella microti
  • Brucella neotomae
  • Brucella ovis
  • Brucella suis (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Bunostomum phlebotomum
  • Bunostomum trigonocephalum
  • Burkholderia cepacia
  • Burkholderia mallei (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Burkholderia pseudomallei (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Cache Valley virus
  • Calliphora vicina - blowfly
  • Camelpox virus
  • Campylobacter coli
  • Campylobacter fetus
  • Campylobacter jejuni
  • Campylobacter spp. **
  • Candida albicans
  • Capillaria caudinflata
  • Capillaria contorta
  • Capillaria obsignata
  • Caprine adenovirus type 1, 2
  • Caprine arthritis and encephalitis virus
  • Caprine herpesvirus
  • Chaburtia ovina
  • Cheilospirura hamulosa
  • Chicken anemia virus (circovirus)
  • chicken hepatitis E virus
  • Chlamydophila abortus
  • Chlamydophila pecorum
  • Chlamydophila psittaci
  • Choanotaenia infundibulum
  • Chronic wasting disease (CWD)
  • Citrobacter freundii
  • Classical swine fever virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Clostridium botulinum (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Clostridium chauvoei
  • Clostridium difficile
  • Clostridium haemolyticum
  • Clostridium novyi
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • Clostridium septicum
  • Clostridium sordelli
  • Clostridium sporogenes
  • Clostridium tetani
  • Coccidioides immitis
  • Coccidioides posadasii
  • Cochliomyia hominivorax (screwworm)
  • Coenurus cerebralis
  • Collyriclum faba - fluke
  • Contagious ecthyma (orf; contagious pustular dermatitis)
  • Cooperia curticei
  • Cooperia oncophora
  • Cooperia pectinata
  • Cooperia punctata
  • Cooperia surnabada
  • Corynebacterium bovis
  • Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
  • Corynebacterium renale
  • Cowpox virus
  • Coxiella burnetii (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Crossiella equi
  • Cryptococcus neoformans
  • Cryptosporidium parvum
  • Culex spp. - mosquito
  • Culicoides spp. - mosquito
  • Cyathostoma bronchialis
  • Cyrnea colini
  • Cysticercus cellulosae
  • Davainea proglottina
  • Deerpox Virus
  • Dermacenter spp. - tick
  • Dermatobia hominis - fly
  • Dichelobacter nodosus (Bacterioides nodosus)
  • Dicrocoelium dentriticum - fluke
  • Dictyocaulus arnfieldi
  • Dictyocaulus filaria
  • Dictyocaulus viviparus
  • Dispharynx nasuta
  • Duck adenovirus
  • Duck enteritis virus
  • Duck hepatitis type 1
  • Duck infectious anemia virus
  • Duck plague virus
  • Dung beetles
  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Echinococcus spp. **
  • Ehrlichia (Neorickettsia) risticii
  • Ehrlichia fergusonii
  • Ehrlichia ruminantium (Cowdria ruminatum )(heartwater)
  • Eimeria spp. **
  • Elaeophora schneideri
  • Encephalomyocarditis virus
  • Enterobacter aerogenes
  • Enterobacter cloacae
  • Enterococcus cecorum
  • Enterococcus durans
  • Enterococcus hirae
  • Enterococcus spp. **
  • Ephemeral fever virus
  • Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV)
  • Equine adenovirus
  • Equine coital exanthema virus (Equine herpesvirus 3)
  • Equine coronavirus
  • Equine hepacivirus
  • Equine herpesvirus 2
  • Equine herpesvirus 3 (Equine coital exanthema)
  • Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV)
  • Equine influenza virus
  • Equine papilloma virus
  • Equine rhinitis virus (picornavirus)
  • Equine rhinopneumonitis virus (EHV-1 and EHV-4)
  • Equine rotavirus
  • Equine viral arteritis virus
  • Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
  • Escherichia coli, enteropathogenic to livestock or poultry: F 18, K88, VTEC O5:H-, VTEC O8:H9, VTEC O26:H11, VTEC O26:O26, VTEC O80:H- and VTEC O111:H-, non-O157 EHEC serogroups O26, O111, O118 and O103
  • Eurytrema coelomaticum - fluke
  • Eurytrema ovis - fluke
  • Eurytrema pancreaticum - fluke
  • Fasciola gigantica - fluke
  • Fasciola hepatica - fluke
  • Fasciola magna - fluke
  • Foot and mouth disease virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Fowl adenovirus type 1
  • Fowl calicivirus
  • Fowlpox virus
  • Francisella tularensis (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Francisella tularensis subspecies holartica LVS
  • Fusarium spp. **
  • Fusobacterium necrophorum
  • Gaigeria pachyscelis
  • Gallibacterium anatis
  • Gasterophilus spp. - horse bot
  • Getah virus
  • Giardia spp. **
  • Glaesserella australis
  • Globicatella sanguinis
  • Goat pox virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Gongylonema ingluvicola
  • Goose parvovirus
  • Guggenheimella bovis
  • Haemaphysalis spp. - tick
  • Haemonchus contortus
  • Haemonchus placei
  • Haemonchus similis
  • Haemophilus agni
  • Haemophilus paragallinarum
  • Haemophilus parahemolyticus
  • Haemophilus parasuis
  • Haemophilus somnis
  • Haemophilus suis
  • Haemotobia irritans – fly
  • Haemaphysalis longicornis --tick
  • Halicephalobus deletrix
  • Helicobacter pullorum
  • Helicobacter suis
  • Hemagglultinating encephalomyelitis virus
  • Hemorrhagic enteritis virus
  • Hendra virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Herpesvirus of turkey (HVT) virus
  • Heterakis gallinarum
  • Heterakis isolonche
  • Highlands J Virus
  • Histomonas meleagridis
  • Histophilus somni
  • Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum
  • Hyalomma spp. - tick
  • Hyostrongylus rubidus
  • Hypoderma bovis
  • Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (Bovine herpesvirus 1)
  • Infectious bronchitis virus
  • Infectious bursal disease virus
  • Infectious laryngotracheitis (Avian Herpesvirus 1)
  • Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus
  • Infectious salmon anemia virus
  • Influenza A virus
  • Influenza C virus
  • Isospora spp. **
  • Isospora suis
  • Ixodes spp. - tick
  • Jamestown canyon virus (aka Jerry Slough virus)
  • Japanese encephalitis virus
  • Klebsiella oxytoca
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae
  • Kobuvirus
  • Kunjin virus
  • Lawsonia spp. **
  • Leishmania braziliensis
  • Leishmania infantum
  • Leishmania siamensis
  • Leishmania spp. **
  • Lentzea kentuckyensis
  • Leptospira interrogans (various serovars- hardjo, pomona, icterohaemorrhagiae, grippotyphosa, canicola)
  • Listeria ivanovii
  • Listeria monocytogenes
  • Louping ill virus
  • Lumpy skin disease virus (Neethling virus) (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Lutzomyia longipalpis - sandfly
  • Maedi-visna virus (Ovine progressive pneumonia)
  • Main Drain virus
  • Madariaga virus
  • Malignant catarrhal fever (Alcelephine herpesvirus 1) (wildebeest-associated) (exotic)
  • Malignant catarrhal fever (Ovine herpesvirus 2) (sheep associated ) (domestic)
  • Mannheimia glucosida
  • Mannheimia granulomatis
  • Mannheimia haemolytica
  • Mannheimia ruminalis
  • Mannheimia varigena
  • Marek's disease virus
  • Margaropus spp. - tick
  • Mecistocirrus digitatus
  • Menangle virus
  • Metroliasthes lucida
  • Micrococcus luteus
  • Microsporum canis
  • Microsporum gypseum
  • Microsporum nanum
  • Middleburg virus
  • Monkeypox virus (Mpox virus) (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Moraxella bovis
  • Moraxella bovoculi
  • Moraxella ovis
  • Morbilivirus spp. **
  • Mouse pox
  • Murray Valley encephalitis virus
  • Musca spp. - fly
  • Mycobacterium africanum
  • Mycobacterium avium
  • Mycobacterium bovis
  • Mycobacterium bovis BCG
  • Mycobacterium caprae
  • Mycobacterium F38
  • Mycobacterium fortuitum
  • Mycobacterium kansasii
  • Mycobacterium microti
  • Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
  • Mycobacterium pinnipedii
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms (excluding M tuberculosis)
  • Mycoplasma agalactiae
  • Mycoplasma bovis
  • Mycoplasma capricolum (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Mycoplasma dispar
  • Mycoplasma gallisepticum
  • Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
  • Mycoplasma hyorhinis
  • Mycoplasma hyosynoviae
  • Mycoplasma iowae
  • Mycoplasma meleagridis
  • Mycoplasma mycodies (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)(only the excluded select agent*)
  • Mycoplasma synoviae
  • Myxoma virus
  • Nairobi sheep disease
  • Nematodirus abnormalis
  • Nematodirus battus
  • Nematodirus filicollis
  • Nematodirus helvetianus
  • Nematodirus spathiger
  • Neospora caninum - coccidian parasite
  • Neospora hughsi - coccidian parasite
  • Newcastle disease virus (avirulent) (Avian paramyxovirus type 1)
  • Newcastle disease virus (virulent) (Avian paramyxovirus type 1)
  • Nipah virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Nocardia spp. **
  • Nosoma - tick
  • Oesophagostomum clumbianum
  • Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale
  • Ornithostrongylus quadriradiatus
  • Ostertagia bisonis
  • Ostertagia leptospicularis
  • Ostertagia lyrata (Skrjabinagia lyrata, Grosspiculagia lyrata)
  • Ostertagia orloffi
  • Ostertagia ostertagi
  • Ostertagia podjapolskyi (Grosspiculagia podjapolskyi)
  • Ostertagia trifurcata
  • Otobius spp. - tick
  • Ovine adenovirus
  • Ovine astrovirus
  • Ovine ecthyma virus
  • Ovine herpesvirus 1
  • Ovine parainfluenza 3
  • Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma virus (Pulmonary adenomatosis; Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus)
  • Oxyspirura mansoni
  • Parainfluenza 5 (aka Simian parainfluenza 5)
  • Parascaris equorum
  • Parelaphostrongylus tenius
  • Pasteurella multocida (Fowl cholera)
  • Pasteurella trehalosi
  • Peptostreptococcus spp. **
  • Peste des petits ruminants (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Phlebotumus spp. - sandfly
  • Pigeon paramyxovirus
  • Pigeon pox virus
  • Plasmodium gallinaceum
  • Plasmodium hermani
  • Pleisiomonas spp. **
  • Porcine acute gastroenteritis (Porcine astrovirus)
  • Porcine adenovirus
  • Porcine circovirus
  • Porcine cytomegalovirus (Porcine herpesvirus 2)
  • Porcine delta coronavirus
  • Porcine enteric calicivirus
  • Porcine enterovirus (Teschen; Talfan; Benign enzootic paresis; Poliomyelitis suum; Porcine enteroviral encephalomyelitis)
  • Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) asian lineage
  • Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) non-asian lineage
  • Porcine hemagglutinating encephalitis virus
  • Porcine hepatitis E
  • Porcine herpesvirus
  • Porcine kobuvirus
  • Porcine paramyxovirus (Menangle)
  • Porcine parvovirus
  • Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRS)
  • Porcine respiratory coronavirus
  • Porcine rotavirus group A
  • Porcine rotavirus group B
  • Porcine rotavirus group C
  • Porcine rotavirus group E
  • Porcine rubulavirus ("blue eye")
  • Porcine sapelovirus
  • Porcine sapovirus
  • Porcine teschovirus
  • Porcine torovirus
  • Porcine transmissible gasteroenteritis virus
  • Porphyromonas spp. **
  • Powassan virus
  • Prevotella melaninogenica
  • Propionibacterium spp. **
  • Prosthogonimus macrorchis - fluke
  • Proteus mirabilis
  • Proteus vulgaris
  • Prototheca wickerhamii
  • Prototheca zopfii
  • Providencia rettgeri
  • Providencia stuarti
  • Pseudocowpox virus
  • Pseudomonas spp. **
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Pseudorabies virus (Porcine herpesvirus; Aujeszky's disease)
  • Psoroptes spp. - mite
  • Pythium insidiosum
  • Quail bronchitis virus (Avian adenovirus group 1) 002-ADV
  • Rabbit pox
  • Rabies virus
  • Raccoonpox virus
  • Raillietina cesticillus
  • Raillietina echinobothrida
  • Raillietina tetragona
  • Rhipicentor spp. - tick
  • Rhipicephalus spp. - tick
  • Rhizomucor miehei
  • Rhodococcus equi
  • Rickettsia gravesii
  • Rickettsia risticii
  • Riemerella anatipestifer
  • Rift valley fever virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Rinderpest virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Rodent adapted scrapie
  • Ross River virus
  • Rous associated virus
  • Salmonella abortusovis
  • Salmonella anatum
  • Salmonella arizonae
  • Salmonella choleraesuis
  • Salmonella dublin
  • Salmonella enterica
  • Salmonella enteritidis
  • Salmonella gallinarum
  • Salmonella hadar
  • Salmonella heidelberg
  • Salmonella kentucky
  • Salmonella montevideo
  • Salmonella newport
  • Salmonella pullorum
  • Salmonella saintpaul
  • Salmonella typhimurium
  • San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV)
  • Sand fly
  • Sarcocystis neurona
  • Sarcocystis spp.**
  • Schistosoma bovis - fluke
  • Schistosoma curassoni - fluke
  • Schistosoma incognitum - fluke
  • Schistosoma indicum - fluke
  • Schistosoma japonicum - fluke
  • Schistosoma mattheei - fluke
  • Schistosoma nasale - fluke
  • Schistosoma spindale - fluke
  • Schmallenberg virus
  • Scrapie
  • Seneca Valley virus
  • Serratia spp. **
  • Sheep pox (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Simulium spp. - blackfly
  • Sindbis virus
  • Spring viremia of carp virus
  • St Louis encephalitis virus
  • Staphylococcus arlettae
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Staphylococcus capitis
  • Staphylococcus chromogenes
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis
  • Staphylococcus equorum
  • Staphylococcus haemolyticus
  • Staphylococcus hyicus
  • Staphylococcus intermedius
  • Staphylococcus lugdunensis
  • Staphylococcus nepalensis
  • Staphylococcus sciuri
  • Staphylococcus spp
  • Staphylococcus warneri
  • Stomoxys calcitrans - stable fly
  • Streptococcus agalactiae
  • Streptococcus dysgalactiae
  • Streptococcus equi
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Streptococcus suis
  • Strongyloides avium
  • Strongyloides edentatus
  • Strongyloides equinus
  • Strongyloides papillosus
  • Strongyloides ransomi
  • Strongyloides vulgaris
  • Subulura brumpti
  • Swine adenovirus
  • Swine astrovirus
  • Swine enteric coronavirus (SECoV)
  • Swine hepatitis E virus, genotype 3
  • Swine heptatitis E virus, genotype 4
  • Swine influenza virus
  • Swine papillomavirus
  • Swine poxvirus
  • Swine vesicular disease virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Syngamus trachea
  • Tabanus spp. - horse fly
  • Taenia saginata
  • Taenia solium
  • Taylorella asinigenetalis
  • Taylorella equigenitalis (Contagious equine metritis)
  • Teladorsagia circumcincta
  • Tetrameres americana
  • Theileria annulata
  • Theileria buffeli
  • Theileria equi (formerly Babesia equi)
  • Theileria lestoquardi
  • Theileria lowenshuni
  • Theileria mutans
  • Theileria orientalis
  • Theileria parva
  • Theileria sergenti
  • Theileria uilenbergi
  • Tilapia Lake Virus
  • Toxoplasma gondii
  • Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGE)
  • Treponema denticola
  • Treponema phagedenis
  • Treponema vincentii
  • Triatoma spp. (Kissing Bug)
  • Trichinella britovi
  • Trichinella murrelli
  • Trichinella nativa
  • Trichinella papuae
  • Trichinella pseudospiralis
  • Trichinella spiralis
  • Trichomonas foetus
  • Trichomonas gallinae
  • Trichomonas stableri
  • Trichophyton equinum
  • Trichophyton mentagrophytes
  • Trichostongylus colubiformis
  • Trichostrongylus axei
  • Trichostrongylus rugatus
  • Trichostrongylus tenuis
  • Trichostrongylus vitrinus
  • Trichuris ovis
  • Trichuris suis
  • Tridontophorus tenuicollis
  • Tritrichomonas foetus
  • Truperella pyogenes
  • Trychophyton verrucosum
  • Trypanosoma brucei brucei
  • Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
  • Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
  • Trypanosoma congolense
  • Trypanosoma cruzi
  • Trypanosoma equiperdum (Dourine)
  • Trypanosoma evansi (Surra)
  • Trypanosoma simiae
  • Trypanosoma vivax
  • Tsetse fly (glossina)
  • Turkey astrovirus (Poultry enteritis and mortality syndrome)
  • Turkey enteritis coronavirus (Bluecomb disease)
  • Ureaplasma diversum
  • Vaccinia virus
  • Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (only the excluded select agent*)
  • Vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV)
  • Vesicular stomatitis virus (Indiana or NJ strain)
  • Vesicular stomatitis virus (strains exotic to US)
  • Volepox virus
  • Waddlia chondrophila
  • Wesselsbron virus
  • West Nile virus
  • Western equine encephalitis virus
  • Yaba monkey tumor virus
  • Yersinia enterocolytica
  • Yersinia pseudotubercuolosis
  • Yersinia vaccine strain
* Select agents are regulated by the Federal Select Agent Program
** There may be both pathogenic and nonpathogenic species to livestock/poultry within this genus