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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2013 Aug 8;369(6):517–528. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1211115

Table 2.

Sequencing Reads for the 27 Most Abundant Bacteria in Four Samples from Patients with Cord Colitis in the Discovery Cohort.*

Organism Sample No.
5b 5c 11b 11d
number of reads
Bradyrhizobium enterica 631,276 119,122 1,669,087 1,360,422
Delftia acidovorans 5,006 7,517 137 39
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 2,740 3,615 130 50
Other delftia species 2,103 2,975 371 113
Propionibacterium acnes 1,070 355 5,985 1,087
Bradyrhizobium japonicum 695 180 1,520 1,177
Ralstonia pickettii 678 148 1,295 419
Other bradyrhizobium species 542 110 1,146 887
Pseudomonas mendocina 460 76 1,276 417
Pseudomonas fluorescens 375 76 126 56
Rhodopseudomonas palustris 311 77 627 451
Acidovorax ebreus 208 101 682 290
Xanthomonas campestris 208 97 127 252
Alicycliphilus denitrificans 174 91 300 139
Ralstonia solanacearum 137 26 333 103
Other acidovorax species 123 78 349 174
Mesorhizobium opportunistum 99 94 111 50
Burkholderia gladioli 95 39 409 248
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 89 80 149 39
Methylobacterium radiotolerans 79 99 114 15
Escherichia coli 74 81 472 295
Rubrivivax gelatinosus 67 28 240 177
Other agrobacterium species 46 11 769 269
Cupriavidus taiwanensis 46 60 29 19
Asticcacaulis excentricus 45 34 289 72
Agrobacterium tumefaciens 22 8 489 135
Fusobacterium nucleatum 8 2 142 217
Rothia mucilaginosa 5 5 313 14
Clostridium difficile 3 1 4 114
Streptococcus sanguinis 3 6 582 3
Lactobacillus reuteri 1 0 433 0
*

PathSeq taxonomic classification was performed on all four sequenced samples obtained from Patients 5 and 11 with the inclusion of the Bradyrhizobium enterica draft genome in the reference database. Organisms are listed according to their abundance in sample 5b. Additional details regarding the viral reads are provided in Table S4 in the Supplementary Appendix.

Only one species was identified.