Table 1.
Overview of the Epsilonproteobacteria taxa isolated from reptiles and respective host association.
| Reptiles |
Mammals | Birds | References | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lizards | Snakes | Chelonians | ||||
| Arcobacter | ||||||
| Arcobacter butzleri | + | + | + | + | + | Gilbert et al., 2014 |
| Arcobacter cryaerophilus | + | – | + | + | + | Gilbert et al., 2014 |
| Arcobacter skirrowii | – | – | + | + | + | Gilbert et al., 2014 |
| Campylobacter | ||||||
| Campylobacter fetus subsp. testudinum | + | + | + | –∗∗∗ | – | Harvey and Greenwood, 1985; Wang et al., 2013; Gilbert et al., 2014 |
| Campylobacter hyointestinalis | – | – | + | + | – | Gilbert et al., 2014 |
| Campylobacter iguaniorum | + | – | + | – | – | Benejat et al., 2014; Gilbert et al., 2014 |
| Campylobacter geochelonis | – | – | + | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014; Piccirillo et al., 2016 |
| Helicobacter | ||||||
| Helicobacter 11S02596-1∗ | + | – | – | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 11S02629-2∗ | – | – | + | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 11S03491-1∗ | + | – | – | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 12S02232-10/SP2∗ | + | + | – | – | – | Lawson and Owen, 2007; Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 12S02256-12∗ | + | – | – | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 12S02634-8∗ | + | – | – | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 13S00401-1∗ | – | – | + | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 13S00482-2∗ | + | – | – | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter 13S00477-4∗ | + | – | – | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014, 2017 |
| Helicobacter ‘pancake tortoise’∗ | – | – | + | – | – | Stacy and Wellehan, 2010 |
| Sulfurospirillum | ||||||
| Sulfurospirillum 11S05485-2∗ | – | – | +∗∗ | – | – | Gilbert et al., 2014 |
∗Putative species based on 16S rRNA. ∗∗Only known Sulfurospirillum taxon isolated from a vertebrate. ∗∗∗Occasionally isolated from humans which had been exposed to reptiles in most cases.