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. 2018 May 9;200(11):e00014-18. doi: 10.1128/JB.00014-18

TABLE 1.

Surface motile bacteria grouped by motility mode

Motility mode Bacteria (references)
Swarming Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris (150), Azospirillum sp. (3), Bacillus subtilis (3, 12, 16), Clostridium sp. (6), Delftia acidovorans (152), Escherichia coli (17, 18), Klebsiella pneumoniae (104), Paenibacillus sp. (8, 68, 146), Proteus mirabilis (5, 12, 14, 103), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (15, 20, 66, 67, 82, 95, 107, 148), Pseudomonas veronii (152), Ralstonia taiwanensis (152), Rhizobium sp. (55, 156), Salmonella Typhimurium (11, 18, 72, 114), Serratia marcescens (12, 93), Serratia liquefaciens (13, 70), Serratia rubidaea (13), Sinorhizobium meliloti (131), Vibrio cholerae (3, 104), Vibrio parahaemolyticus (3, 9, 111, 157), Vibrio alginolyticus (158), Yersinia sp. (3)
Twitching Acinetobacter baumannii (80, 81, 120, 121), Bacteroides sp. (27), Caulobacter sp. (26), Clostridium perfringens (98, 99), Geobacter sp. (26), Kingella kingae (126, 153), Myxococcus xanthus (35, 123, 154), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (30), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (26, 28, 97, 107, 118, 155), Ralstonia solanacearum (79), Vibrio sp. (26, 27), Xylella fastidiosa (127, 128)
Gliding Flavobacterium sp. (5, 31), Mycoplasma sp. (5, 31, 34), Myxococcus sp. (5, 31, 36, 151)
Sliding Bacillus subtilis (42), Escherichia coli (39), Legionella pneumophila (130), Mycobacterium smegmatis (40), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (23, 44), Salmonella Typhimurium (45), Sinorhizobium meliloti (39, 131), Staphylococcus aureus (41), Streptomyces sp. (100), Vibrio sp. (39)