BSL3 and BSL4 Agents: Epidemiology, Microbiology and Practical Guidelines

PART A PATHOGENS
Part I Bacteria
Bacillus anthracis: Anthrax (Markus Antwerpen, Paola Pilo, Pierre Wattiau, Patrick Butaye, Joachim Frey and Dimitrios Frangoulidis)
Brucella species: Brucellosis (Sally J. Cutler, David Albert, Michel S. Zygmunt and Bruno Garin-Bastuji)
Burkholderia mallei: Glanders (Lisa D. Sprague and Mandy C. Elschner)
Burkholderia pseudomallei: Melioidosis (Lisa D. Sprague and Mandy C. Elschner)
Coxiella burnetii: Q fever (Matthias Hanczaruk, Sally Cutler, Rudolf Toman, and Dimitrios Frangoulidis)
Francisella tularensis : Tularemia (Anders Johansson, Herbert Tomaso, Plamen Padeshki, Anders Sjostedt, Nigel Silman and Paola Pilo)
Yersinia pestis: Plague (A. Laudisoit, W. Ruppitsch, A.Stoeger, and A. Pietzka)
Rickettsia species: Rickettsioses (Alice N. Maina, Stephanie Speck, Eva Spitalska, Rudolf Toman, Gerhard Dobler, and Sally J. Cutler)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Tuberculosis (Stefan Panaiotov, Massimo Amicosante, Marc Govaerts, Patrick Butaye, Elizabeta Bachiyska, Nadia Brankova, Victoria Levterova)

PART II ? Viruses
Influenza virus: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (Chantal J. Snoeck, Nancy A. Gerloff, Radu I. Tanasa, Francesc Xavier Abad Morejón de Girón, Claude P. Muller)
Variola: Smallpox (Andreas Nitsche and Hermann Meyer)
Arenaviruses : Haemorrhagic fevers (Amy C. Shurtleff, Steven B. Bradfute, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Peter B. Jahrling, Jens H. Kuhn, and Sina Bavari)
Filoviruses: Haemorrhagic fevers (Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Sina Bavari, Peter B. Jahrling, Jens H. Kuhn)
Bunyavirus: Haemorrhagic fevers
- Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus: An enzootic tick borne virus causing severe disease in man (Ali Mirazimi)
- Rift Valley Fever virus: A promiscuous vector borne virus (M. Weidmann, F.X. Abad, and J.T. Paweska)
- Hantaviruses: The most widely distributed zoonotic viruses on earth (Jonas Kingström and Ali Mirazimi)

Part B PRACTICAL GUIDELINES
Part I Bacteria
Bacillus anthracis (Markus Antwerpen, Paola Pilo, Pierre Wattiau, Patrick Butaye, Joachim Frey and Dimitrios Frangoulidis)
Brucella species (Sally J. Cutler, David Albert, Michel S. Zygmunt and Bruno Garin-Bastuji)
Burkholderia mallei (Lisa D. Sprague and Mandy C. Elschner)
Burkholderia pseudomallei (Lisa D. Sprague and Mandy C. Elschner)
Coxiella burnetii (Matthias Hanczaruk, Sally Cutler, Rudolf Toman, and Dimitrios Frangoulidis)
Francisella tularensis (Anders Johansson, Herbert Tomaso, Plamen Padeshki, Anders Sjostedt, Nigel Silman and Paola Pilo)
Yersinia pestis (A. Laudisoit, W. Ruppitsch, A.Stoeger, and A. Pietzka)
Rickettsia (Alice N. Maina, Stephanie Speck, Eva Spitalska, Rudolf Toman, Gerhard Dobler, and Sally J. Cutler)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Stefan Panaiotov, Massimo Amicosante, Marc Govaerts, Patrick Butaye, Elizabeta Bachiyska, Nadia Brankova, Victoria Levterova)

PART II Viruses
Influenza virus (Chantal J. Snoeck, Claude P. Muller)
Variola virus (Andreas Nitsche and Hermann Meyer)
Arenaviruses (Amy C. Shurtleff, Steven B. Bradfute, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Peter B. Jahrling, Jens H. Kuhn, and Sina Bavari)
Filoviruses (Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Sina Bavari, Peter B. Jahrling, Jens H. Kuhn)
Bunyaviruses -
Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (Ali Mirazimi)
Bunyaviruses -
Rift Valley Fever virus (M. Weidmann, F.X. Abad, and J.T. Paweska)
Bunyaviruses -
Hantaviruses (Jonas Kingström and Ali Mirazimi)