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bioterrorism |
intentional or threatened use of viruses, bacteria, fungi, toxins from living organisms, or other chemicals to produce death or disease in humans, animals or plants |
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Category A agents |
variola major; bacillus anthracis, yersinia pestis, clostridium botulinumtoxin; Francisella tylarensis
filoviruses and arenaviruses |
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Category B agents |
coxiella burnetti; brucella species; burkholderia mallei; salmonella species; escherichia coli 0157:H7; cryptosporidium parvum; vibrio |
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Category C agents |
nipah virus; hantaviruses; tickborne hemorrhagic fever; tickborne encephalitits; yellow fever; MDRO tuberculosis |
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anthrax |
encapsulated, aerobic, gram-positive, spore forming, rod shaped bacillus |
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brucellosis |
gram negative, non spore forming, non motile coccobaccilus bacteria |
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Yersenia pestis (Plague) |
gram negative, non-motile bacillus |
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francisella tularensis (tularemia) |
small gram negative coccobacillus |
