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. 2015 Jul 13;13(3):148–158. doi: 10.1016/j.gpb.2015.02.005

Table 2.

Highly-abundant bacterial species under different disease conditions

Disease Name of prevalent bacteria Ref.
Symptomatic atherosclerosis Escherichia coli [42]
Eubacterium rectale
Eubacterium siraeum
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
Ruminococcus bromii
Ruminococcus sp. 5_1_39BFAA



Type 2 diabetes Akkermansia muciniphila [49]
Bacteroides intestinalis
Bacteroides sp. 20_3
Clostridium bolteae
Clostridium ramosum
Clostridium sp. HGF2
Clostridium symbiosum
Colstridium hathewayi
Desulfovibrio sp. 3_1_syn3
Eggerthella lenta
Escherichia coli



Obesity/IBD/CD Acidimicrobidae ellin 7143 [50]
Actinobacterium GWS-BW-H99
Actinomyces oxydans
Bacillus licheniformis
Drinking water bacterium Y7
Gamma proteobacterium DD103
Nocardioides sp. NS/27
Novosphingobium sp. K39
Pseudomonas straminea
Sphingomonas sp. AO1



Colorectal cancer Acinetobacter johnsonii [47,51–53]
Anaerococcus murdochii



Bacteroides fragilis
Bacteroides vulgatus
Butyrate-producing bacterium A2-166
Dialister pneumosintes
Enterococcus faecalis
Fusobacterium nucleatum E9_12
Fusobacterium periodonticum
Gemella morbillorum
Lachnospira pectinoschiza
Parvimonas micra ATCC 33270
Peptostreptococcus stomatis
Shigella sonnei

Note: IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; CD, Crohn’s disease.