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List of Bacteria

Colonisation
Bacterium Site of infection / clinical syndrome
site

Bacillus anthracis none anthrax

Bacillus cereus (environment) food poisoning / food-borne enteritis

abdominal sepsis, abscesses (including


Bacteroides  sp. large bowel
cerebral)

Bordetella pertussis none whooping cough

Campylobacter  sp. none food-borne enteritis

Chlamydia pneumoniae none respiratory tract (atypical pneumonia)

Chlamydia trachomatis none genital tract, eye

Clostridium botulinum (environment) botulism

antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (inc


Clostridium difficile (large bowel?)
pseudomembranous colitis)

large bowel (& gas gangrene, abdominal sepsis, food


Clostridium perfringens
soil) poisoning

large bowel (&


Clostridium tetani tetanus
soil)

Corynebacterium diphtheriae (nasopharynx?) diphtheria

skin /
other Corynebacterium  sp. urinary tract, 'line' colonisation / infection
nasopharynx

Enterococcus  spp. (formerly Streptococcus urinary tract, 'line' colonisation / infection,


large bowel
) abdominal sepsis

urinary tract, abdominal sepsis, neonatal


Escherichia coli large bowel
septicaemia / meningitis

non-capsulate: respiratory tract (inc


Haemophilus influenzae nasopharynx
exacerbation COAD, middle ear)

group b capsulate: epiglottitis, meningitis,


 
osteomyelitis

Helicobacter pylori (stomach?) atrophic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease

Klebsiella  sp. large bowel urinary tract, abdominal sepsis

Legionnaires disease (Pontiac fever,


Legionella pneumophila none
'atypical' pneumonia)

septicaemia / meningitis (esp neonates &


Listeria monocytogenes (large bowel?)
immunosuppressed)

respiratory tract (inc exacerbation COAD,


Moraxella catarrhalis nasopharynx
middle ear)

Mycobacterium leprae none leprosy

Mycobacterium tuberculosis none tuberculosis

rarely tuberculosis, possibly other


other Mycobacterium  sp. (none?)
infections in immunosuppressed
Mycoplasma pneumoniae none respiratory tract ('atypical' pneumonia)

Neisseria gonorrhoeae none gonnorhoea

Neisseria meningitidis nasopharynx septicaemia / meningitis

Proteus  sp. large bowel urinary tract, abdominal sepsis

urinary tract, abdominal sepsis, respiratory


Pseudomonas aeruginosa large bowel
tract in cystic fibrosis patients

other  Pseudomonas  sp. large bowel 'line'; colonisation / infection

Salmonella typhi /paratyphi large bowel? typhoid fever

other  Salmonella  sp. large bowel? food-borne enteritis

Shigella  sp. large bowel? food-borne enteritis

skin & soft tissue (eg abscess / cellulitis /


fascitis), food poisoning & other toxin-
Staphylococcus aureus nasopharynx, skin
mediated disease, endocarditis,
osteomyelitis

'line' colonisation / infection (& other


Staphylococcus epidermidis skin, nasopharynx
prostheses)

Streptococcus agalactiae  (Group B


vagina neonatal septicaemia / meningitis
-haemolytic)

respiratory tract (including lobar


Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharynx pneumonia, exacerbation COAD, middle
ear), meningitis

skin & soft tissue (eg abscess / cellulitis /


Streptococcus pyogenes  (Group A
nasopharynx fascitis), pharyngitis (rheumatic fever,
-haemolytic)
glomerulonephritis)

skin / mouth /
Streptococcus viridans bacterial endocarditis
nasopharynx

Vibrio cholerae none food-borne enteritis including cholera

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