Bacteria and Rickettsiae with Biological Weapons Potential

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Bacteria and Rickettsiae with Biological Weapons Potential

Names on this page include a list of the currently accepted biological names for bacterial biological warfare agents and a second list of older systematic names for these agents. Unlike the diseases they cause, bacteria rarely have trivial names.

Preferred Systematic Names for Bacteria and Rickettsiae with Biological Weapons Potential
Bacillus anthracis	Chlamydia psittaci	Rickettsia prowasecki	Vibrio cholerae
Bartonella quintana	Clostridium botulinum	Rickettsia rickettsii	Yersinia pestis
Brucella melitensis	Coxiella burnetti	Rickettsia tsutsugamushii
Burkholderia mallei	Francisella tularensis	Salmonella typhi
Burkholderia pseudomallei	Rickettsia mooseri	Shigella dysenteriae

Older Names and Synonyms
Actinomyces mallei	Brucella suis	Pestisella pestis	Rickettsia typhi
Bacillus botulinus	Chlamydophila psittaci	Pfeiferella pseudomallei	Rochalimea quintana
Bacillus dysenteriae	Malleomyces mallei	Pseudomonas mallei	Salmonella typhosa
Bacillus pestis	Malleomyces pseudomallei	Pseudomonas pseudomallei	Shigella shiga
Bacillus whitmori	Miyagawanella psittaci	Rickettsia burnetii	Shigella shigella
Bacterium pestis	Orientia tsutsugamushi	Rickettsia orientalis	Vibrio comma
Brucella abortus	Pasteurella pestis	Rickettsia quintana	Whitmorella pseudomallei

Fungi

There are only two fungal pathogens of any significance as biological weapons:

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