List of genera of pathogenic bacteria and microscopy

features[edit]
Many genera contain pathogenic bacteria species. They often possess characteristics that help
to classify and organize them into groups. The following is a partial listing.

Genus

Bacillus

[19]

Bartonella

Bordetella

Bacillus
anthracis

Bacillus
cereus

Bartonell
a henselae

[19]

[19]

Gram
stainin
g

Species

Bartonell
a quintana

Bordetell
a pertussis
[20]

Shape

Oxygen
requirement

Intra/Extracel
lular

Positive

Rods

Facultative
anaerobic

Extracellular

Negativ
e

Rods

Aerobic

Facultative
intracellular

Negativ
e

Small coccob
acilli

Aerobic

Extracellular

Negativ
e,
stains
poorly

spirochete

Anaerobic

Extracellular

Negativ
e

coccobacilli

Aerobic

Intracellular

[21]

Borrelia

Borrelia
burgdorferi

Borrelia
garinii

[19]

Brucella

Borrelia
afzelii

Borrelia
recurrentis

Brucella
abortus

Brucella
canis

[19]

Brucella
melitensis

Brucella
suis

Campylobacter

[19]

Chlamydia and Chlamy

dophila

Campylo
bacter jejuni

Chlamydi
a
pneumoniae

Chlamydi
a
trachomatis

[19]

Clostridium

Chlamyd
ophila
psittaci

Clostridiu
m botulinum

Clostridiu
m difficile

[19]

Corynebacterium

[19]

Clostridiu
m
perfringens

Clostridiu
m tetani

Coryneb
acterium
diphtheriae

[21]

Negativ
e

Spirochete
Bacillus

microaerophili
c

extracellular

(not
Gramstained
)

Small, round,
ovoid

Facultative or
strictly aerobic

Obligate
intracellular

Positive

Large, bluntended rods

Obligate
anaerobic

extracellular

Positive
(uneve
nly)

bacilli

Mostly
facultative
anaerobic

extracellular

Positive

Cocci

Facultative
Anaerobic

extracellular

Negativ
e

Bacillus

Facultative
anaerobic

extracellular
or intracellular

Negativ
e

coccobacillus

strictly aerobic

Facultative
intracellular

Negativ
e

coccobacilli
to long and
slender
filaments

Negativ
e

Spirochete

[22][23]

Enterococcus

Escherichia

Francisella

[21][24]

[1][21][25]

[19]

Haemophilus

Enteroco
ccus faecalis

Enteroco
ccus faecium

Escheric
hia coli

Francisel
la tularensis

Haemop
hilus
influenzae

[21][26]

Helicobacter

Helicoba
cter pylori
[27]

extracellular

Microaerophil
e

extracellular

Legionella

[19]

Leptospira

Listeria

a
pneumophila

Leptospir
a interrogans

Leptospir
a santarosai

[21][28]

[19]

Mycobacterium

Mycoplasma

Neisseria

Leptospir
a weilii

Leptospir
a noguchii

Listeria
monocytoge
nes

Mycobac
terium leprae

Mycobac
terium
tuberculosis

Mycobac
terium
ulcerans

[19]

[19]

Mycopla
sma
pneumoniae

Neisseria
gonorrhoeae

[21][29]

Pseudomonas

Rickettsia

Legionell

[19]

Salmonella

[21][30]

Neisseria
meningitidis

Pseudo
monas
aeruginosa

Rickettsi
a rickettsii

[19]

Salmonel

Negativ
e,
stains
poorly

cocobacilli

aerobic

facultative
intracellular

Negativ
e,
stains
poorly

Spirochete

Strictly
aerobic

extracellular

Positive
, darkly

Slender,
short rods

Facultative
Anaerobic

intracellular

(none)

Long,
slender rods

aerobic

extracellular

(none)

'fried egg'
appearance,
no cell wall

Mostly
facultative
anaerobic; M.
pneumoniae s
trictly aerobic

extracellular

Negativ
e

Kidney beanshaped

aerobic

Gonococcus:
facultative
intracellular
N.
meningitidis:
extracellular

Negativ
e

rods

Obligate
aerobic

extracellular

Negativ
e,
stains
poorly

Small, rodlike
coccobacillar
y

Aerobic

Obligate
intracellular

Negativ
e

Bacillus
shape

Facultative
anaerobica

Facultative
intracellular

la typhi

Shigella

[21][31]

Staphylococcus

Streptococcus

Treponema

[19]

Ureaplasma

Vibrio

[21][21][33]

Yersinia

[1]

[19]

Salmonel
la
typhimurium

Shigella
sonnei

Staphylo
coccus
aureus

Staphylo
coccus
epidermidis

Staphylo
coccus
saprophyticu
s

Streptoc
occus
agalactiae

Streptoc
occus
pneumoniae

Streptoc
occus
pyogenes

[1]

Trepone
ma pallidum

Ureaplas
ma
urealyticum

Vibrio
cholerae

Yersinia
pestis

Yersinia
enterocolitica

[21][34]

Negativ
e

rods

Facultative
anaerobic

extracellular

Positive
, darkly

Round cocci

Facultative
anaerobic

extracellular,
facultative
intracellular

Positive

ovoid to
spherical

Facultative
anaerobic

extracellular

Negativ
e,
stains
poorly

Spirochete

Aerobic

extracellular

Stains
poorly

indistinct,
'fried egg'
appearance,
no cell wall

anaerobic

extracellular

Negativ
e

Spiral with
single
polar flagellu
m

Facultative
anaerobic

extracellular

[32]

Negativ
e,
bipolarl
y

Small rods

Facultative
Anaerobe

Intracellular

Yersinia
pseudotuber
culosis