List of clinically important bacteria
This is a list of bacteria that are significant in medicine. For viruses, see list of viruses.
A
[edit]- Acetobacter aurantius
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Actinomyces israelii
- Agrobacterium radiobacter
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens
- Anaplasma
- Azorhizobium caulinodans
- Azotobacter vinelandii
- viridans streptococci
B
[edit]- Bacillus
- Bacteroides
- Bacteroides fragilis
- Bacteroides gingivalis
- Bacteroides melaninogenicus (now known as Prevotella melaninogenica)
- Bartonella
- Bordetella
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Brucella
- Burkholderia
C
[edit]- Calymmatobacterium granulomatis
- Campylobacter
- Capnocytophaga canimorsus
- Chlamydia
- Chlamydophila
- Chlamydophila pneumoniae (previously called Chlamydia pneumoniae)
- Chlamydophila psittaci (previously called Chlamydia psittaci)
- Citrobacter
- Clostridioides difficile
- Clostridium
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium perfringens (previously called Clostridium welchii)
- Clostridium tetani
- Corynebacterium
- Coxiella burnetii
- Cutibacterium acnes (previously called Propionibacterium acnes)
E
[edit]- Ehrlichia chaffeensis
- Ehrlichia ewingii
- Eikenella corrodens
- Enterobacter cloacae
- Enterococcus
- Escherichia coli
F
[edit]- Francisella tularensis (previously called Pasteurella tularensis)
- Fusobacterium necrophorum
- Fusobacterium nucleatum
G
[edit]H
[edit]K
[edit]L
[edit]- Lactobacillus
- Legionella pneumophila
- Leptospira interrogans
- Leptospira noguchii
- Listeria monocytogenes
M
[edit]- Methanobacterium extroquens
- Microbacterium multiforme
- Micrococcus luteus
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Morganella morganii
- Mycobacterium
- Mycoplasma
N
[edit]P
[edit]- Pasteurella multocida
- Peptostreptococcus
- Porphyromonas gingivalis
- Prevotella melaninogenica (previously called Bacteroides melaninogenicus)
- Proteus
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
R
[edit]S
[edit]- Salmonella
- Serratia marcescens
- Shigella dysenteriae
- Spirillum volutans
- Staphylococcus
- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
- Streptococcus
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Streptococcus anginosus
- Streptococcus avium
- Streptococcus bovis
- Streptococcus constellatus
- Streptococcus cricetus
- Streptococcus ferus
- Streptococcus intermedius
- Streptococcus lactis
- Streptococcus mitior
- Streptococcus mitis
- Streptococcus mutans
- Streptococcus oralis
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Streptococcus rattus
- Streptococcus salivarius
- Streptococcus sanguis
- Streptococcus sobrinus
- Streptomyces avermitilis