Table 1.

Host specificity and disease caused by nine Bordetella species

Bordetella species	Number of analyzed genomes	Genome size (reference genome)	Host	Disease
B. bronchiseptica	58	5,338,400 bp	variety of mammals, including pigs, dogs, cats, seals, rabbits, horses, mice, sheep, humans	Broad variety of respiratory disease, from clinically unapparent to fatal pneumonia, such as snuffles in rabbits, atrophic rhinitis in pigs and kennel cough in dogs
B. parapertussis	2	4,773,551 bp	humans, sheep	Respiratory infection, Whooping Cough-like disease
B. pertussis	34	4,086,186 bp	humans	Respiratory infection, Whooping Cough
B. hinzii	6	4,885,897 bp	turkeys, rabbits, immunocompromised humans	Respiratory disease in turkeys and rabbits, septicemia in humans
B. holmesii	18	3,699,674 bp	humans	Respiratory infection, Whooping Cough-like disease, bacteremia
B. avium	1	3,732,255 bp	birds	Respiratory disease
B. trematum	4	4,485,537 bp	humans	Ear infection, wound infection
B. ansorpii	2	6,210,412 bp	humans	Epidermal cyst, wound infection
B. petrii	3	5,287,950 bp	humans, environmental	Wound infection (osteomyelitis), ear infection (chronic mastoiditis), chronic bronchorrhea, environmental