List of clinically important bacteria
This is a list of bacteria that are significant in medicine. It is not intended as an exhaustive list of all bacterial species: that should be at List of bacteria. For viruses, see list of viruses.
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- Acetobacter aurantius
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Actinomyces israelii
- Agrobacterium radiobacter
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens
- Anaplasma
- Azorhizobium caulinodans
- Azotobacter vinelandii
- viridans streptococci
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- Bacillus
- "Bacillus Thuringiensis"
- Bacteroides
- Bacteroides fragilis
- Bacteroides gingivalis
- Bacteroides melaninogenicus (now known as Prevotella melaninogenica)
- Bartonella
- Bordetella
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Brucella
- Burkholderia
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- Calymmatobacterium granulomatis
- Campylobacter
- Chlamydia
- Chlamydophila
- Chlamydophila pneumoniae (previously called Chlamydia pneumoniae)
- Chlamydophila psittaci (previously called Chlamydia psittaci)
- Clostridium
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium difficile
- Clostridium perfringens (previously called Clostridium welchii)
- Clostridium tetani
- Corynebacterium
- Coxiella burnetii
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- Methanobacterium extroquens
- Microbacterium multiforme
- Micrococcus luteus
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Mycobacterium
- Mycoplasma
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- Pasteurella
- Peptostreptococcus
- Porphyromonas gingivalis
- Prevotella melaninogenica (previously called Bacteroides melaninogenicus)
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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- Salmonella
- Shigella dysenteriae
- Spirillum volutans
- Staphylococcus
- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
- Streptococcus
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Streptococcus avium
- Streptococcus bovis
- Streptococcus cricetus
- Streptococcus faceium
- Streptococcus faecalis
- Streptococcus ferus
- Streptococcus gallinarum
- Streptococcus lactis
- Streptococcus mitior
- Streptococcus mitis
- Streptococcus mutans
- Streptococcus oralis
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Streptococcus rattus
- Streptococcus salivarius
- Streptococcus sanguis
- Streptococcus sobrinus
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