Level Spesies
Level I well-characterized several kinds of microorganisms including non-pathogenic types of laboratories generally
agents which do not strains of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus, Bacillus used as teaching spaces for high
cause disease in healthy subtilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other organisms not schools and colleges
humans suspected to contribute to human disease.[11]
Level II involving agents of Hepatitis A, B, and C viruses, human immunodeficiency clinical, diagnostic, teaching,
moderate potential virus (HIV), pathogenic strains of Escherichia research, or production
hazard to personnel coli, Staphylococcus, Salmonella, Plasmodium falciparum, facilities
and the environment and Toxoplasma gondii.
Level III involving microbes Francisella tularensis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Chlamydia clinical, diagnostic, teaching,
which can cause serious psittaci, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Eastern equine research, or production
and potentially lethal encephalitis virus, SARS coronavirus, Coxiella burnetii, Rift Valley facilities
disease via the fever virus, Rickettsia rickettsii, several species
inhalation route of Brucella, chikungunya, yellow fever virus, and West Nile virus.
Level IV agents that could easily Biosafety level 4 laboratories are used for diagnostic work and World Health
be aerosol-transmitted research on easily transmitted pathogens which can cause fatal Organization approved facilities
within the laboratory disease. These include a number of viruses known to cause viral at the Centers for Disease
and cause severe to hemorrhagic fever such as Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Lassa Control and Prevention in
fatal disease in humans virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Other pathogens Atlanta, United States, as well
for which there are no handled at BSL-4 include Hendra virus, Nipah virus, and as the State Research Center of
available vaccines or some flaviviruses. Virology and Biotechnology in
treatments Koltsovo, Russia