TABLE 3.

Potential agents of bioterrorism included in product databases

System	Organisms in databasea
	Biothreat level A			Biothreat level B
	Bacillus anthracis	Yersinia pestis	Francisella tularensis	Brucella spp.	Burkholderia mallei	Salmonella spp.	Shigella dysenteriae	Escherichia coli O157:H7	Vibrio cholerae
Manual systems
API 20E		×		×		×	×	×	×
API 20NE									×
RapiD 20E		×				×	×		×
Crystal E/NF						×	×	×	×
Enterotube II		×				×	×
EPS						×	×
GN2 Microplate	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×
ID 32E						×	×	×	×
ID Tri-Panel				×		×	×		×
Micro ID		×				×	×
RapiD NF Plus					×				×
RapID onE						×	×
r/b Enteric Differential						×	×
Automated systems
Phoenix NID						×	×		×
Vitek GNI+		×			×	×	×		×
Vitek 2 ID-GNB	×	×	×	×	×	×	×		×
MicroScan Neg ID type 2		×		×		×	×		×
MicroScan Rapid Neg ID type 3		×				×	×	×	×
MIDI	×	×	×	×	×	×	×		×
ARIS2X GNID		×				×	×		×

^aThe databases of Oxiferm, RapID SS/u, UID, and Uni-N/F Tek include none of these organisms. Biothreat levels are from reference 83. ×, included in database.