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Volume 6, Number 5—October 2000
Perspective

Genomics and Bacterial Pathogenesis

George M. WeinstockComments to Author 
Author affiliation: University of Texas, Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA

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Table 1

Whole-genome sequencing of bacterial pathogensa

Bacterium Status (ref.)
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans In progress
Bacillus anthracis In progress
Bartonella henselae In progress
Bordetella bronchiseptica In progress
B. parapertussis In progress
B. pertussis In progress
Borrelia burgdorferi Finished (1)
Campylobacter jejuni Finished
Chlamydia pneumoniae Finished (2)
C. trachomatis Finished (3)
Clostridium difficile In progress
Enterococcus faecalis In progress
Escherichia coli K12 Finished (4)
E. coli O157:H7 In progress
Haemophilus influenzae Finished (5)
Helicobacter pylori Finished (6,7)
Listeria monocytogenes In progress
Mycobacterium avium In progress
M. leprae In progress
M. tuberculosis Finished (8)
Mycoplasma genitalium Finished (9)
M. mycoides In progress
M. pneumoniae Finished (10)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae In progress
N. meningitidis In progress
Porphyromonas gingivalis In progress
Pseudomonas aeruginosa In progress
P. putida In progress
Rickettsia prowazekii Finished (11)
Salmonella serotype Typhi In progress
S. Typhimurium In progress
Shigella flexneri In progress
Staphylococcus aureus In progress
Streptococcus mutans In progress
S. pneumoniae In progress
S. pyogenes In progress
Treponema denticola In progress
T. pallidum Finished (12)
Ureaplasma urealyticum Finished
Vibrio cholerae In progress
Yersinia pestis In progress

aMuch of these data were taken from the TIGR website (see Table 2). In-progress genome projects are those that are funded but not yet complete.

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