Table 2.

Selected amoeba-resisting bacteria with a publicly available genome sequence.

Classification	Microorganism	Genome	Host	References
Actinobacteria	Mycobacterium avium	4.83 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Li et al., 2005
	Mycobacterium marinum	6.64 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Stinear et al., 2008
	Mycobacterium smegmatis	6.99 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Fleischmann et al., 2006
	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	4.41 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Cole et al., 1998
Bacteroidetes	Amoebophilus asiaticus	1.88 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Schmitz-Esser et al., 2010
	Porphyromonas gingivalis	2.34 Mb	A. castellaniia	Nelson et al., 2003
	Flavobacterium johnsoniae	6.10 Mb	A. polyphagaa	McBride et al., 2009
Chlamydiales	Parachlamydia acanthamoebae	3.07 Mb	A. castellanii	Collingro et al., 2011
	Protochlamydia amoebophila	2.41 Mb	A. castellanii	Horn et al., 2004
	Simkania negevensis	2.50 Mb	A. castellaniia	Collingro et al., 2011
	Waddlia chondrophila	2.12 Mb	A. castellanii	Bertelli et al., 2010
α-proteobacteria	Rickettsia bellii	1.52 Mb	A. polyphaga	Ogata et al., 2006
	Odyssella thessalonicensis	2.85 Mbb	Acanthamoeba	Georgiades et al., 2011
γ-proteobacteria	Legionella drancourtii	4.16 Mbb	A. polyphaga	Gimenez et al., 2011
	Legionella longbeachae	4.08 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Kozak et al., 2010
	Legionella pneumophila	3.50 Mb	Acanthamoeba	Cazalet et al., 2004; Chien et al., 2004

^aShown to grow in amoebae, but maybe not the natural host.

^bUnfinished genome sequence.