What is Elizabethkingia?
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#1605Q)
Earlier this week, Wisconsin health officials reported on 44 cases of Elizabethkingia anophelis infections in 11 counties since Nov. 1, 2015. What is this not-so-common human pathogen, Elizabethkingia? A search of the literature shows that Elizabethkingia anophelis is a bacteria species in the family Flavobacteriaceae, gram negative aerobic bacillus. It is a dominant resident in the mosquito gut of ["]
