Pathogenic bacteria against humans

[santi.ontanon]

Hi all,

How do I know from the more than 2000 bacterial genomes available in NCBI which ones are pathogenic against humans?

Thanks in advance!

[GenoMax]

How do you define the "pathogenic" part since under the right circumstance (reduced/compromised immunity) even commensal organisms can overgrow/cause an infection.

This looks like a useful resource: http://patricbrc.vbi.vt.edu/portal/p...RCs?page=nmpdr

[santi.ontanon]

Thanks for the very quick reply!

Yeah, I was looking at PATRIC, but couldn't find it. Basically what I want is the list of genomes that have been annotated as pathogenic in the literature for the human microbiome. I keep coming across papers referring to a list of 328 species, but I have not been able to find such list anywhere.

[nickloman]

What is a pathogen? http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/10/6