Table 8A. Validated and Potential biological weapons (Cellular)
Phylogeny[1]   NCBI Name[2] Threat List Name or Synonym Validated / Potential Accession
Fungi Ascomycota Ajellomyces capsulatus Histoplasma capsulatum / histoplasmosis Potential          
    Coccidioides immitis Coccidioiomycosis Potential          
  Basidiomycota Filobasidiella neoformans Cryptococcus neoformans / cryptococcosis Potential http://rcweb.bcgsc.bc.ca/cgi-bin/cryptococcus/cn.pl  
    Ustilago tritici   Validated          
Bacteria Alphaproteobacteria Brucella melitensis Brucellosis / Microccocus melitensis / Streptococcus miltensis / Brucella meltensis Validated NC_003317 NC_003318      
    Brucella melitensis biovar Abortus Brucellosis / Brucella abortus/ Bacterium abortus Validated          
    Brucella melitensis biovar Suis Brucellosis / Brucella suis Validated NC_004310 NC_004311      
    Orientia tsutsugamushi Rickettsia tsutsugamushi / Rickettsia akamushi / Rickettsia orientalis / Theileria tsutsugamushi Potential          
    Rickettsia prowazekii Typhus Validated NC_000963        
    Rickettsia rickettsii Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Potential          
    Rickettsia typhi Rickettsia mooseri / murine typhus Potential          
  Betaproteobacteria Burkholderia mallei Glanders Validated NC_002970*      
    Burkholderia pseudomallei Meliodosis / Pseudomonas pseudomallei Validated NC_002930* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/B_pseudomallei/      
  Gammaproteobacteria Coxiella burnetii Q fever Validated NC_002971        
    Francisella tularensis Tularemia / Francisella novicida Validated          
    Legionella pneumophila legionellosis Potential NC_002942* http://genome3.cpmc.columbia.edu/~legion/
    Salmonella typhi typhoid / Bacillus typhi Potential NC_003198* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/S_typhi/
    Shigella dysenteriae Shigella Validated NC_004510* http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/Escherichia_Shigella/
    Vibrio cholerae Cholera Validated NC_002505 NC_002506      
    Vibrio cholerae O139   Validated          
    Yersinia pestis Plague Validated NC_003143 NC_004088      
  Firmicutes Bacillus anthracis Anthrax Validated NC_003997 NC_003995* NC_004352* NC_002925* NC_002925*
    Clostridium perfringens   Validated NC_003366        
  Actinobacteria Nocardia asteroides nocardiosis / Actinomyces asteroides / Actinomyces eppingeri Potential          
  Chlamydia Chlamydophila psittaci Chlamydia psittaci / psittacosis Potential          
Toxin (protein) Bacteria, Low G+C gram positive, Clostridia Botulinum toxin Botulinal toxins Validated AF488749 AB088207 AB082519    
    Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin   Validated M95206 M80837      
  Bacteria, Low G+C gram positive, Bacilli Staphylococcal enterotoxin B   Validated M11118        
  Bacteria, gammaproteobactera Shigatoxin   Potential AB035142 AB035143 AF461169 AF461170 AF461170
  Animal, mollusca, gastropoda Conotoxins   Potential          
  Plant, embryophyta Ricin   Validated          
Toxins (small molecule) Bacteria, gammaproteobacteria Tetrodotoxin   Potential          
  Protists, alveolata Saxitoxin   Potential          
  Fungi, ascomycota Aflatoxin mycotoxins Validated          
    Diacetoxyscirpenol mycotoxins Validated          
    T-2 toxin mycotoxins Validated          
  Animal, chordata, amphibia Batrachotoxin   Potential          

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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