Annex
List: Standard laboratory microorganisms and infectious agents
Effective 20 July 2022The following list contains microorganism and infectious agent that do not require biosecurity containment. These microorganisms are endemic (occur in Australia) and are commonly imported by laboratories in Australia.
Achromobacter spp. |
Acidianus spp. |
Acidiphilium spp. |
Acidithiobacillus spp. |
Acremonium cellulolyticus |
Actinomadura malachitica |
Actinomadura viridis |
Actinomyces rectiverticillatus |
Adeno-associated virus |
Aeromonas hydrophila |
Alcaligenes denitrificans |
Alicyclobacillus spp. |
Ampelomyces quisqualis |
Anabaena cylindrica |
Anaerobacter polyendosporus |
Aneurinibacillus migulanus (formerly Bacillus migulanus) |
Aquifex spp. |
Arthrobacter picolinophilus |
Arthrobacter spp. |
Aspergillus spp. |
Azorhizobium caulinodans |
Azotobacter spp. |
Bacillus aminoglucosidicus |
Bacillus atrophaeus (formerly Bacillus subtilis var. niger) |
Bacillus brevis syn. Brevibacillus brevis |
Bacillus cereus excluding Biovar anthracis |
Bacillus fluorescens putidus |
Bacillus geniculatus |
Bacillus ginsengihumi |
Bacillus licheniformis |
Bacillus megaterium (excluding pv. cerealis) |
Bacillus mesentericus |
Bacillus methylotrophicus |
Bacillus mojavensis |
Bacillus pasteurii |
Bacillus pumilus syn. Bacillus mesentericus, Bacillus aminoglucosidicus |
Bacillus putidus |
Bacillus simplex |
Bacillus sphaericus |
Bacillus stearothermophilus |
Bacillus subtilis |
Bacillus thuringiensis |
Bacteroides spp. |
Bartonella spp. |
Beauveria bassiana |
Bordetella spp. |
Botryococcus spp. |
Brachyspira spp. |
Brevibacillus spp. (excluding B. laterosporus) |
Burkholderia pseudomallei |
Campylobacter spp. |
Caulobacter spp. |
Chlamydia trachomatis |
Chlamydophila pneumonia |
Chlorella spp. |
Chryseobacterium spp. (excluding C. scophthalmum) |
Cicinnobolus cesatti |
Citrobacter spp. |
Clostridium spp. |
Comamonas acidovorans |
Corynebacterium spp. (excluding C. pseudotuberculosis) |
Cronobacter spp. |
Cryptococcus spp. |
Cryptomonas spp. |
Cryptosporidium spp. |
Dehalobacter spp. |
Dehalococcoides spp. |
Dehalogenimonas spp. |
Delftia acidovorans |
Desulfobacter spp. |
Desulfovibrio spp. |
Ensifer adhaerens |
Ensifer meliloti |
Entamoeba spp. |
Enterobacter asburiae |
Enterobacter spp. |
Enterococcus spp. |
Enterovirus (human origin only, and excluding swine vesicular disease virus and human enterovirus C) |
Entomophthora anisopliae |
Erwinia tasmaniensis |
Escherichia spp. |
Ferroplasma spp. |
Fusarium venenatum |
Geobacillus spp. |
Geobacter spp. |
Giardia spp. |
Gigaspora margarita |
Gliocadium catenalatum |
Haemophilus spp. |
Human Adenovirus Types 1-51 |
Human coxsackieviruses 1-24 |
Human echovirus 1-33 |
Human hepatitis virus A, B, C, D, E, G &TTV |
Human Herpes virus 1-8 (includes Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2, Varicella zoster, Epstein-Barr virus and Cytomegalovirus) |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
Human noroviruses |
Human papilloma virus |
Human respiratory syncytial virus |
Human rhinovirus |
Isochrysis galbana |
Klebsiella spp. |
Legionella spp. |
Leptospira copenhageni (Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni) |
Leptospira gripptotyphosa (Leptospira interrogans serovar Gripptotyphosa) |
Leptospira hardjobovis (Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar hardjo-bovis) |
Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae (Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae) |
Leptospira pomona (Leptospira interrogans serovar Pomona) |
Leptospirillum spp. |
Listeria spp. |
Magnetospirillum spp. (formerly Aquaspirillum spp.) |
Metapneumovirus (human) |
Metarhizium acridum |
Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae |
Methanococcus spp. |
Microtetraspora viridis |
Moraxella spp. (includes subgen. Branhamella and subgen. Moraxella) (excluding M. anatipestifer) |
Morganella spp. |
Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) |
Murine leukaemia virus |
Mycobacterium spp. (excluding M. bovis and M. caprae) |
Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
Nannochloropsis spp. |
Neisseria spp. |
Nippostrongylus brasiliensis |
Nocardia calcarea |
Ochrobactrum anthropi |
Paenarthrobacter spp. |
Paenibacillus alvei |
Paenibacillus brasiliensis |
Parainfluenza virus (human) |
Pediococcus spp. |
Penicillium chrysogenum |
Penicillium oxalicum |
Penicillium velutinum |
Pleomorphomonas oryzae |
Porphyromonas spp. |
Pristionchus americanus |
Pristionchus maupasi |
Pristionchus pacificus |
Proteus spp. |
Providencia spp. |
Pseudomonas acidovorans |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Pseudomonas antarctica |
Pseudomonas citronellolis |
Pseudomonas convexa |
Pseudomonas eisenbergii |
Pseudomonas fluorescens (excluding biovar II) |
Pseudomonas geniculata |
Pseudomonas incognita |
Pseudomonas monteilii |
Pseudomonas ovalis |
Pseudomonas putida |
Pseudomonas rugosa |
Pseudomonas striata |
Rhabditis myriophila |
Rhizobium meliloti |
Rhodobacter spp. |
Rhodococcus spp. |
Roseomonas spp. |
Rubella virus |
Rubrivivax spp. |
Saccharopolyspora spinosa |
Saccharopolyspora spp. |
Salmonella Adelaide (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Adelaide) |
Salmonella Agona (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Agona) |
Salmonella Derby (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Derby) |
Salmonella Salford (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Salford) |
Salmonella Senftenburg (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Senftenberg) |
Scutellospora dipurpurescens |
Serratia spp. |
Shewanella spp. (excluding Shewanella marisflavi) |
Shigella spp. |
Sindbis virus |
Sinorhizobium adhaerens |
Sinorhizobium meliloti |
Sporosarcina pasteurii |
Staphylococcus spp. |
Stenotrophomonas spp. |
Streptococcus spp. |
Streptomyces rectiverticillatus |
Streptoverticillium rectiverticillatum |
Suillus granulatus |
Sulfobacillus spp. |
Sulfolobus spp. |
Sulfurisphaera spp. |
Tetrahymena spp. |
Thermus spp. |
Thiobacillus spp. |
Toxoplasma spp. |
Tritirachium shiotae |
Tritirachium shiotae |
Vaccinia virus (cow pox) |
Vibrio alginolyticus |
Vibrio cholerae (excluding serotype 01 and serotype 0139) |
Vibrio parahaemolyticus (excluding VPAHPND strains with plasmid coding for Pir toxin homologues) |
Vibrio vulnificus (excluding biovar II) |
Wolinella succinogens |
Xanthobacter spp. |
Yersinia enterocolitica |