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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2017 Dec 27;51(4):586–593. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2017.12.016

Table 1.

Selected bacteria and their representative strains for the bioinformatic analysis.

Source species Taxonomy (class and order) Representative strain Pathogenicity (Disease) Polymyxin B MIC (μg/mL)* Reference
Neisseria meningitides Betaproteobacteria, Neisseriales MC58 Pathogen (epidemic meningitis) ≥512 [20],[38]
Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA 1090 Pathogen (gonorrhoea) ≥100 [20],[38]
Escherichia coli Gammaprotebacteria, Enterobactriales K-12 MG1655 Non-pathogenic 0.25 [12],[20],[39]
Shigella flexneri 2a str. 301 Opportunistic pathogen (diarrhoea) 0.5 [20],[39]
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 Pathogen (gastroenteritis) 0.5 [12],[20],[39]
Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae HS11286 Pathogen (pneumonia) ≤0.5 [12],[39]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Gammaprotebacteria, Pseudomonadales PAO1 Opportunistic pathogen (pneumonia) 0.5 [12]
Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 Pathogen (pneumonia) 1 [12]
Vibrio cholerae Gammaprotebacteria, Vibrionaceae O1 biovar El Tor N16961 Pathogen (cholera) >96 [20],[35]
Helicobacter pylori Epsilonproteobacteria, Campylobacterales 26695 Pathogen (gastric and duodenal ulcers) >250 [20],[36]
*

PMB: polymyxin B; MIC: Minimum inhibitory concentration. MICs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 were based on our unpublished data.