1AdenovirusesBSL-
2: Sera, handling of human body fluids when ‐
potential exists for splatter or aerosol.
BSL-
3: Cell-culture virus propagation and purification ‐ ‐
should be carried out in BSL-
3 facility‐
2Congo Virus,
Disease:
Hemorrhagic
Fever
BSL-
2: Sera, handling of human body fluids when ‐
potential exists for splatter or aerosol.
BSL-
3: Cell-culture virus propagation and purification ‐ ‐
should be carried out in BSL-
3 facility‐
3Dengue Virus,
Disease:
Hemorrhagic
Fever
BSL-
2: Sera, handling of human body fluids when ‐
potential exists for splatter or aerosol.
BSL-
3: Cell-culture virus propagation and purification ‐ ‐
should be carried out in BSL-
3 facility‐
4Ebola Virus BSL-
4/ABSL-4: All live variola virus work is to be ‐ ‐
done only within WHO approved facilities
5Hantaviruses,
Disease: Hanta
Hemorrhagic
Fever
BSL-
2: Sera, handling of human body fluids when ‐
potential exists for splatter or aerosol.
BSL-
3: Cell-culture virus propagation and purification ‐ ‐
should be carried out in BSL-
3 facility‐
6Hepatitis
viruses: HBV,
HCV, HDV
BSL-
2: for all activities utilizing known or potentially ‐
infectious body fluids and tissues.
BSL-
3 Activities with potential for droplet or aerosol ‐
production and high concentrations.
7Herpesvirus
simiae
BSL-
2: cells, blood, or serum from macaques and ‐
manipulation of tissues.
BSL-
3 practices are recommended for handling ‐
materials from which B virus is being cultured
BSL-
4 facilities are recommended for propagation of ‐
virus obtained from diagnostic samples.
8Human Herpes
Virus
BSL-
2 recommended for activities utilizing known or ‐
potentially infectious.
BSL-
3 should be considered when producing, ‐
purifying, and concentrating human herpesviruses.
9Influenza:
human influenza
strains (e.g.,
H1/H3/B),
human influenza
strains (e.g.,
H1/H3/B), Swine
flu
BSL-
2 for diagnostic, research and production ‐
activities utilizing contemporary, circulating human
influenza strains (e.g., H1/H3/B) and low pathogenicity
human influenza strains (e.g., H1/H3/B), and equine and
swine influenza viruses.
BSL-
3 practices, procedures and facilities are ‐
recommended with rigorous adherence to additional
respiratory protection and clothing change protocols.
1
0
Lymphocytic
Choriomeningitis
Virus
BSL-
2: Body fluids, cell culture passage of laboratory ‐
adapted strains.
BSL-
3: Aerosol production, production quantities, ‐
high concentrations of infectious materials.
1
1
Mumps &
Measle viruses
BSL-
2: Body fluids, cell culture passage of laboratory ‐
adapted strains.
BSL-
3: Aerosol production, production quantities, ‐
high concentrations of infectious materials.
1
2
Poxviruses BSL-
2 and ABSL-2 plus vaccination, are ‐ ‐
recommended for work with most other poxviruses.
BSL-
3: work with monkeypox virus is performed by ‐
vaccinated personnel.
BSL-
4/ABSL-4: All live variola virus work is to be ‐ ‐
done only within WHO approved facilities; (one is the
HHS in Atlanta, one in Russia).
1
3
Polio Virus BSL-
2 and/or ABSL-2: Infectious materials or ‐ ‐
animals.
BSL-
3: Potential for droplet or aerosol production, ‐
production quantities or high concentrations.
1
4
Rabies Virus
(and related
lyssaviruses)
BSL-
2 and/or ABSL-2: Infectious materials or ‐ ‐
animals.
BSL-
3: Potential for droplet or aerosol production, ‐
production quantities or high concentrations.
1
5
Retroviruses,
(HIV & SIV)
BSL-
2 practices, containment equipment, and facilities ‐
are recommended for clinical specimens.
BSL-
3 practices for activities for production of ‐
research laboratory-
scale quantities of HIV or SIV.‐
1
6
Severe acute
respiratory
syndrome
(SARS)
coronavirus
BSL-
2: Pathologic examination, processing of ‐
inactivated tissues, molecular analysis of extracted
nucleic acid preparations, routine staining and
microscopic analysis of fixed smears.
BSL-
3: SARS-CoV propagation in cell culture, initial ‐ ‐
characterization of viral agents recovered in cultures of
SARS specimens.
1
7
West Nile Virus
(WNV) BSL-
2: human diagnostic specimens. ‐
BSL-
3: Manipulations of WNV cultures, animal, vector ‐
studies.
1
8
Zika Virus BSL-
3: Diagnostic, clinical materials, infectious ‐
cultures, infected animals or arthropods.