Table 1.
A list of well-known Corynebacterium species and some of the significant features that define them.
| Taxonomy | Pathogenisis | Number of genomes | Oxygen requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| C. accolens (Ang and Brown, 2007; Wong et al., 2010) | Pelvic Osteomyelitis; Granulomatous Mastitis | 2 | Facultative |
| C. ammoniagenes | 3 | Anaerobic | |
| C. amycolatum | Endocarditis; Sepsis | 3 | Aerobic |
| C. argentoratense (Riegel et al., 1995) | Tonsillitis | 3 | Unknown |
| C. atypicum | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. aurimucosum (Lo et al., 2015) | Urinary tract infection | 15 | Facultative |
| C. auriscanis (Collins et al., 1999) | 1 | Aerobic | |
| C. bovis (Burr et al., 2012) | Hyperkeratosis; Mastitis | 1 | Facultative |
| C. callunae (Persicke et al., 2015) | Non-pathogenic|Amino acid production | 2 | Aerobic |
| C. camporealensis | Mastitis | 2 | Facultative |
| C. capitovis (Collins et al., 2001) | 1 | Anaerobic | |
| C. casei | Non-pathogenic|Food production | 2 | Facultative |
| C. caspium | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. ciconiae | 1 | Anaerobic | |
| C. crenatum (Xu et al., 2012; Su et al., 2015) | Non-pathogenic|Amino acid production | 2 | Aerobic |
| C. deserti | 1 | Aerobic | |
| C. diphtheriae | Diphtheria | 86 | Aerobic |
| C. doosanense | 2 | Facultative | |
| C. durum (Riegel et al., 1997; James et al., 2011) | 2 | Facultative | |
| C. efficiens (Odeniyi et al., 2017) | Non-pathogenic|Laccases and Amino acid production | 2 | Facultative |
| C. epidermidicanis (Frischmann et al., 2012) | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. falsenii | 2 | Facultative | |
| C. freiburgense | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. freneyi (Auzias et al., 2003; Funke and Frodl, 2008) | Bacteremia | 1 | Anaerobic |
| C. genitalium | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. glucuronolyticum | 2 | Facultative | |
| C. glutamicum | Non-pathogenic|Food and Amino acid production | 28 | Facultative |
| C. glycinophilum | Non-pathogenic|Amino acid production | 1 | Aerobic |
| C. halotolerans (Rückert et al., 2012) | Non-pathogenic | 3 | Aerobic |
| C. humireducens | 2 | Facultative | |
| C. imitans | 1 | Unknown | |
| C. jeikeium | Nosocomial infections | 24 | Facultative |
| C. kroppenstedtii | 4 | Facultative | |
| C. kutscheri | Lung abscess | 1 | |
| C. lactis (Antunes et al., 2015) | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. lipophiloflavum | 1 | ||
| C. lubricantis | 1 | ||
| C. marinum | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. maris | 1 | Aerobic | |
| C. massiliense | 1 | ||
| C. mastitidis | Subclinical mastitis | 1 | |
| C. matruchotii | Oral infections | 2 | Aerobic |
| C. minutissimum (Granok et al., 2002) | Erythrasma | 3 | Facultative |
| C. mustelae (Funke et al., 2010) | 1 | Aerobic | |
| C. nuruki (Shin et al., 2011) | Non-pathogenic|Alcohol fermentation | 1 | Aerobic |
| C. pilosum | Cystitis | 2 | |
| C. propinquum (Abdolrasouli and Roushan, 2013) | Urethritis | 1 | Facultative |
| C. pseudodiphtheriticum (Manzella et al., 1995; Martaresche et al., 1999) | Nosocomial Pneumonia; Bronchitis | 2 | |
| C. pseudotuberculosis | Caseous Lymphadenitis | 71 | Facultative |
| C. pyruviciproducens (Tong et al., 2010, 2012) | Non-pathogenic|Pyruvic acid and ovalbumin production | 1 | Facultative |
| C. renale (Honda and Yanagawa, 1973) | Cystitis; Pyelonephritis | 1 | Facultative |
| C. resistens (Schröder et al., 2012) | Bacteremia | 1 | |
| C. riegelii (Funke et al., 1998) | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. simulans (Wattiau et al., 2000) | 3 | Facultative Anaerobic | |
| C. singulare | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. sp. ATCC | 124 | ||
| C. sputi | 1 | Anaerobic | |
| C. stationis | 4 | ||
| C. striatum (Sheldon and Coudron, 1990) | Endocarditis | 3 | |
| C. terpenotabidum (Rückert et al., 2013) | Non-pathogenic|Squalene production | 1 | Aerobic |
| C. testudinoris | 1 | ||
| C. timonense (Henrique et al., 2011; Merhej et al., 2016) | 2 | Facultative | |
| C. tuberculostearicum | 1 | Anaerobic | |
| C. tuscaniense | 1 | ||
| C. ulcerans (De Zoysa et al., 2005b) | Pharyngeal Diphtheria | 17 | |
| C. ulceribovis | Ulceration | 1 | Anaerobic |
| C. urealyticum | Urinary tract infection | 3 | Aerobic |
| C. ureicelerivorans | Septicemia | 1 | Facultative |
| C. uterequi | 1 | Facultative | |
| C. variabile (Schröder et al., 2011) | Non-pathogenic|Food production | 3 | Aerobic |
| C. vitaeruminis (Al-Dilaimi et al., 2014) | 3 | Facultative | |
| C. xerosis | 2 |
The source of information were obtained by PATRIC Database (Wattam et al., 2014) and updated with new bibliographical sources.