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| Classification of Biohazardous Agents | |
| March 1995 | |
| CLASSIFICATION OF BIOHAZARDOUS AGENTS (As Adapted by the Stanford Panel on Biosafety, January 1995)Basis for the Classification of Agents --CLASS 1 Agents of minimal hazard under ordinary conditions of handling --CLASS 2 Agents of moderate potential hazard to personnel and environment. This class includes agents which may produce disease of varying degrees of severity from accidental inoculation or injection or other means of cutaneous penetration but which are contained by ordinary laboratory techniques (biosafety level 2 standards of practice and facility). --CLASS 3 Agents which may cause serious or potentially lethal disease as a result of exposure by the inhalation route.Class 3 agents also includes agents derived from outside the United States which require a federal permit for importation unless they are specified for higher classification. This class includes pathogens which require special conditions for containment (biosafety level 3 standards of practice and facility). Experiments involving Class 4 or 5 agents are not permitted at Stanford: --CLASS 4 Agents that require the most stringent conditions for their containment because they are extremely hazardous to laboratory personnel or may cause serious epidemic disease. This class includes Class 3 agents from outside the United States when they are employed in entomological experiments are conducted in the same laboratory area. --CLASS 5 Foreign animal pathogens that are excluded from the United States by law or whose entry is restricted by USDA administrative policy. Note: Federally licensed vaccines containing live bacteria or viruses are not subject to these classifications. These classifications are applicable, however, to cultures of the strains used for vaccine production, or further passages of the vaccine strains. |
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CLASS 1 AGENTS
CLASS 2 AGENTS 2B Bacterial Agents * Acinetobacter calcoaceticus 2F Fungal agents * Actinomycetes (including Nocardia species and Actinomyces species and
Arachnia propionica) 2P Parasitic Agents * Endamoeba histolytica 2V Viral, Rickettsial, and Chlamydial Agents * Adenoviruses (human, all types) CLASS 3 AGENTS 3B Bacterial Agents * Bartonella (all species) 3F Fungal Agents * Coccidioides immitis 3P Parasitic Agents None 3V Viral, Rickettsial, and Chlamydial Agents * Monkey pox, when used in vitro CLASS 4 AGENTS (Note: Experiments involving these agents are not permitted at Stanford) 4B Bacterial Agents None 4F Fungal Agents None 4P Parasitic Agents None 4V Viral, Rickettsial, and Chlamydial Agents * Ebola fever virus CLASS 5 AGENTS (Note: Experiments involving these agents are not permitted at Stanford) A. Animal Disease Organisms and Vectors which are Forbidden Entry into the United States by Law * Foot and Mouth disease virusB. Animal Disease Organisms and Vectors which are Forbidden Entry into the United States by USDA Policy * African horse sickness virus C. Organisms which may not be Studied in the United States except at Specified Facilities * Alastrim ONCOGENIC VIRUSES CLASS 2 ONCOGENIC VIRUSES * Ad7-SV40, Ad2-SV40 |
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