TABLE 2 .
List of potential pathogens identified in the humpback whale blow according to genus-level identity, as well as descriptions of recognized pathogens and putative marine mammal pathogens
| Genus | MED(s) in whale blowa | Putative marine mammal pathogen (reference[s]) |
No. of recognized pathogens in genus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acinetobacter | 9761, 8888, 5164, 8857, 5165, 1070, 9765, 1067 | Acinetobacter lwoffii (21) | NAb |
| Actinobacillus | 6581 | NA | 9 |
| Arcobacter | 8192, 3986, 8223, 8193, 8194, 3989, 8222 | NA | 2 |
| Arthrobacter | 100 | Arthrobacter cumminsii (16) | NA |
| Bacillus | 6010 | NA | 4 |
| Bacteroides | 6758 | NA | 14 |
| Balneatrix | 4335 | NA | 1 |
| Campylobacter | 3645, 3641, 3642, 3651, 80 | NA | 11 |
| Capnocytophaga | 6603 | NA | 6 |
| Chryseobacterium | 7829 | NA | 4 |
| Corynebacterium |
6786, 6788, 6836, 8673, 8671, 6797, 8652, 8654, 3514 |
Corynebacterium spp. (21) | 33 |
| Escherichia-Shigella | 5544 | Escherichia coli (21) | 0 |
| Fusobacterium | 35 | Fusobacterium varium (21) | 13 |
| Haemophilus | 9046, 9047, 9045, 5437 | NA | 18 |
| Helcococcus | 4258, 8395, 8398, 8377, 261, 5988, 8396, 1947, 1949, 257, 8397,8378, 5986, 260 |
NA | 2 |
| Helicobacter | 3988 | NA | 12 |
| Lactobacillus | 4629, 4625, 4645, 322 | NA | 3 |
| Lactococcus | 2216 | NA | 1 |
| Listeria | 5860 | NA | 2 |
| Moraxella | 7227, 8609 | NA | 9 |
| Mycoplasma | 7640, 3008, 7642 | Mycoplasma sp. (16) | 63 |
| Neisseria | 9019, 9020 | NA | 11 |
| Peptostreptococcus | 8129, 8130 | NA | 10 |
| Porphyromonas | 9273, 9078, 9274, 5800, 9077, 9112, 5796, 9114, 5799, 5795, 5797, 9109, 9080, 5486 |
NA | 12 |
| Pseudoalteromonas | 5116, 5119 | NA | 1 |
| Pseudomonas | 9740, 5159, 9739, 5873 | Pseudomonas aeruginosa (7) | 9 |
| Psychrobacter | 8626, 2428, 2426, 7254, 2065, 8585, 4878, 8627, 8584, 2062, 2441,4879, 7255, 8610, 9480, 9482, 8582, 7157, 4874 |
NA | 1 |
| Sphingomonas | 231 | NA | 2 |
| Staphylococcus | 6011, 6041, 6038 |
Staphylococcus aureus (7, 16), Staphylococcus cohnii (16), Staphylococcus epidermidis (16, 21), Staphylococcus warneri (16), Staphylococcus sp. (16), Staphylococcus delphini (23) |
13 |
| Streptococcus | 7098, 3720, 7097, 2227, 2217, 2228 | Alpha-hemolytic Streptococcus (16), Streptococcus zooepidemicus (7), Streptococcus group D (21) |
27 |
| Veillonella | 1666, 1668 | NA | 1 |
| Vibrio | 2695 |
Vibrio anguillarum (16), Vibrio alginolyticus (16), Vibrio wodanis (16), Vibrio sp. (21) |
15 |
a
MED nodes (17) present in the core microbiome are in bold.
b
NA, not applicable.