Annex
Standard laboratory microorganisms (including viruses)
Effective 1 March 2017 to 17 June 2017The following list contains low risk microorganisms, including viruses. These microorganisms are endemic (occur in Australia) and are commonly imported by laboratories in Australia.
Achromobacter spp. |
Acidianus spp. |
Acidiphilium spp. |
Acidithiobacillus spp. |
Adeno-associated virus Types 1-9 (human AAV’s only) |
Aeromonas hydrophila |
Alicyclobacillus spp. |
Aneurinibacillus migulanus (formerly Bacillus migulanus) |
Amycolatopsis spp. |
Aspergillus spp. |
Aquifex spp. |
Azotobacter spp. |
Bacillus atrophaeus (formerly Bacillus subtilis var. niger) |
Bacillus brevis |
Bacillus cereus excluding Biovar anthracis |
Bacillus licheniformis |
Bacillus megaterium (excluding pv. cerealis) |
Bacillus pumilus (also known as Bacillus mesentericus and Bacillus aminoglucosidicus) |
Bacillus sphaericus |
Bacillus stearothermophilus |
Bacillus subtilis |
Bacteroides spp. |
Bartonella spp. |
Bordetella spp. |
Botryococcus spp. |
Brachyspira spp. |
Brevibacillus spp. |
Burkholderia pseudomallei |
Campylobacter spp. |
Caulobacter spp. |
Chlamydia trachomatis |
Chlamydophila pneumonia |
Chryseobacterium spp. (excluding C. scophthalmum) |
Citrobacter spp. |
Clostridium spp. |
Corynebacterium spp. (excluding C. pseudotuberculosis and C. pekinense) |
Cronobacter spp. |
Cryptococcus spp. |
Cryptomonas spp. |
Cryptosporidium spp. |
Desulfobacter spp. |
Desulfovibrio spp. |
Entamoeba spp. |
Enterobacter spp. |
Enterococcus spp. |
Enterovirus (human origin only, and excluding swine vesicular disease virus and human enterovirus C) |
Escherichia spp. |
Ferroplasma spp. |
Geobacillus spp. |
Geobacter spp. |
Giardia spp. |
Haemophilus spp. |
Helicobacter 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 |
Klebsiella spp. |
Legionella spp. |
Leptospira copenhageni (Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni) |
Leptospira gripptotyphosa (Leptospira interrogans serovar Gripptotyphosa) |
Leptospira hardjobovis (Leptospira interrogans serovar Hardjobovis) |
Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae (Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae) |
Leptospira pomona (Leptospira interrogans serovar Pomona) |
Leptospirillum spp. |
Listeria spp. |
Magnetospirillum spp. (formerly Aquaspirillum spp.) |
Metapneumovirus (human) |
Metarhizium anisopilae |
Methanococcus spp. |
Morganella spp. |
Moraxella spp. (includes subgen. Branhamella and subgen. Moraxella) (excluding M. anatipestifer) |
Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) |
Murine leukaemia virus |
Mycobacterium spp. (excluding M. bovis and M. caprae) |
Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
Neisseria spp. |
Nippostrongylus brasiliensis |
Parainfluenza virus (human) |
Pediococcus spp. |
Penicillium chrysogenum |
Porphyromonas spp. |
Proteus spp. |
Providencia spp. |
Pseudomonas fluorescens (excluding biovar II) |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Pseudomonas putida |
Rhodobacter spp. |
Rhodococcus spp. |
Roseomonas spp. |
Rubella virus |
Rubrivivax spp. |
Saccharopolyspora spp. |
Salmonella adelaide |
Salmonella agona (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Agona) |
Salmonella derby (Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Derby) |
Salmonella salford |
Salmonella seftenburg (seftenberg) |
Serratia spp. |
Shewanella spp. |
Shigella spp. |
Sindbis virus |
Staphylococcus spp. |
Stenotrophomonas spp. |
Streptococcus spp. |
Sulfobacillus spp. |
Sulfolobus spp. |
Sulfurisphaera spp. |
Tetrahymena spp. |
Thermus spp. |
Thiobacillus spp. |
Toxoplasma spp. |
Vaccinia virus (cow pox) |
Vibrio alginolyticus |
Vibrio cholerae (excluding serotype 01 and serotype 0139) |
Vibrio parahaemolyticus |
Vibrio vulnificus (excluding biovar II) |
Yersinia enterocolitica |