Table 9. Bioterror and Biocrime Agents
Phylogeny[1]   NCBI Name[2] Threat List Name or Synonym Accession
Eukaryota Chromadorea Ascaris suum pig roundworm          
  Diplomonadida Giardia intestinalis Giardia lamlia / Giardia duodenalis          
Bacteria Alphaproteobacteria Rickettsia prowazekii Typhus NC_000963        
  Betaproteobacteria Burkholderia mallei Glanders NC_002970*      
  Gammaproteobacteria Coxiella burnetii Q fever NC_002971        
    Salmonella paratyphi   NC_002963* http://genome.wustl.edu/projects/bacterial/sparatyphiB/
    Salmonella typhi Bacillus typhi NC_003198* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/S_typhi/
    Salmonella typhimurium   NC_003197 NC_004509*    
    Shigella dysenteriae   NC_004510* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/Escherichia_Shigella/
    Vibrio cholerae cholera NC_002505 NC_002506      
    Vibrio cholerae O139            
    Yersinia enterocolitica   NC_003222* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/Y_enterocolitica/
    Yersinia pestis plague NC_003143 NC_004088      
  Firmicutes Bacillus anthracis anthrax NC_003997 NC_003995* NC_004352* NC_002925* NC_004126*
    Clostridium botulinum   NC_003223* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/C_botulinum/
    Clostridium tetani Tetanus NC_004557        
  Actinobacteria Corynebacterium diphtheriae   NC_002935        
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis Tuberculosis NC_002755 NC_000962      
+ Strand RNA Virus Caliciviridae Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus RHDV NC_001543        
  Flaviviridae Hepatitis C Virus HCV NC_004102        
Retroid virus Retroviridae Human immunodeficiency virus 1 HIV-1 NC_001802        
    Human immunodeficiency virus 2 HIV-2 NC_001722        
Toxin (protein) Bacteria, Low G+C gram positive, Clostridia Botulinum toxin   AF488749 AB088207 AB082519    
    Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin   M95206 M80837      
  Bacteria, gammaproteobactera Cholera endotoxin   D30053 D30052 AF390572    
  Bacteria, actinobacteria Diphtheria toxin   A04646 AY141013 AY141014    
  Plant, embryophyta African milk bush toxin            
    Abrin            
    Ricin            
Toxin (small molecule) Plant, embryophyta Nicotine            

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[1]
decker:
Organism is the agent itself(bacteria, virus, fungi, etc. and
Toxin is the product with the phylogeny of the producing organism.
Toxins have their own line, even though the organism may or may not have its own line
[2]
decker:
Best names in current curation. If NCBI gives a different name than LT, the NCBI name is used here. Some of the names here do not exist on NCBI