This guide is designed to help students pronounce the names of common bacteria that they may encounter during Phase 1, especially during Block 9.
Simply click on the name of a bacterium to hear its pronunciation.
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- Acinetobacter baumanii
- Actinomyces israelii
- Bacillus anthracis
- Bacillus cereus
- Bacteroides fragilis
- Bordetella pertussis
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Borrelia recurrentis
- Brucella abortus
- Burkholderia cepacia
- Campylobacter jejuni
- Chlamydia pneumoniae
- Chlamydia psittaci
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium difficile
- Clostridium perfringens
- Clostridium tetani
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae
- Coxiella burnetii
- Enterobacter cloacae
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Enterococcus faecium
- Escherichia coli
- Francisella tularensis
- Gardnerella vaginalis
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Helicobacter pylori
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Legionella pneumophila
- Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae
- Leptospira interrogans
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Mycobacterium avium intracellulare
- Mycobacterium leprae
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Mycoplasma hominis
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Nocardia asteroides
- Pasteurella multocida
- Porphyromonas gingivalis
- Prevotella melaninogenica
- Proteus mirabilis
- Proteus vulgaris
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Salmonella enteritidis
- Salmonella paratyphi
- Salmonella typhi
- Serratia marcescens
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Staphylococcus saprophyticus
- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Streptococcus milleri
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Treponema pallidum
- Ureaplasma urealyticum
- Vibrio cholerae
- Yersinia enterocolitica
- Yersinia pestis
Image contributor: Gordon Beakes © University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Image courtesy Centre for Bioscience, the Higher Education Academy
Audio files © HYMS 2006