Animal Pathogens: Defra Classification of Specified Animal Pathogens
Group 1
There are no specified animal pathogens in Group 1.
Group 2
Aujeszky’s disease virus
Babesia bigemina
Babesia bovis
Babesia caballi
Bovine leukosis virus
Echinococcus multilocularis
Echinococcus granulosus
Ehrlichia ruminantium
Mycoplasma agalactiae
Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae
Mycoplasma mycoides var capri
Mycoplasma mycoides sub species mycoides, SC and mycoides LC variants
Theileria annulata
Theileria equi
Theileria parva
Trichinella spiralis
Trypanosoma brucei
Trypanosoma congolense
Trypanosoma equiperdum
Trypanosoma evansi
Trypanosoma simiae
Trypanosoma vivax
Viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits virus
Group 3
African horse sickness virus
Bacillus anthracis
Bluetongue virus
Brucella abortus
Brucella melitensis
Brucella ovis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia mallei
Classical swine fever virus
Cochliomya hominivorax
Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses
Equine infectious anaemia virus
Histoplasma farciminosum
Japanese encephalitis virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Rift Valley fever virus
St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus
Sheep and goat pox virus
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus
* Vesicular stomatitis virus
West Nile virus
* Where small quantities of vesicular stomatitis virus are being handled as part of a plaque assay system for human immunodeficiency viruses, Category 2 containment is sufficient. Any procedures likely to cause aerosols must be performed in a microbiological safety cabinet, and any persons having contact with the virus must not have contact with equidae for 48 hours thereafter. In all other circumstances, Category 3 containment is required.
Group 4
African swine fever virus
Avian influenza viruses (pathogenic)
Avian influenza viruses (uncharacterised)
Foot and mouth disease virus
Hendra disease virus
Newcastle disease viruses (pathogenic)
Newcastle disease viruses (uncharacterised)
Nipah disease virus
Peste des petits ruminants virus
Rinderpest virus
Swine vesicular disease virus
Teschen disease virus
** Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus
** Special rabies containment conditions required.
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August 28, 2008