Pathogenic bacteria used in this study (set 2).

The species name, associated disease, mode of transmission, and proteome size are listed for each bacterium. The specific strain used is indicated in parentheses after each species name. Some bacteria cause varying symptoms or diseases; as such, a representative disease was chosen for each. These bacteria constitute set 2 as described in the text, and were divided into sets 2 a and 2 b, which represent bacteria causing acute infections and bacteria causing chronic infections, respectively. Modes of transmission were derived from the Centres for Disease Control website (http://emergency.cdc.gov).