Elizabethkingia
| Elizabethkingia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Superdomain: | Phylogenetica |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidetes |
| Class: | Flavobacteria |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Elizabethkingia Kim et al., 2005 |
| Species | |
Elizabethkingia is a genus of bacteria described in 2005, named after Elizabeth O. King, the discoverer of the type species.[1] A 2014 study revealed that Elizabethkingia is an emerging bacterial pathogen for hospital environments, with its incidence in intensive care units rising since 2004. It genome possesses genes conferring antibiotic resistance and virulence. Combined with a lack of effective therapeutic regimens, this leads to high mortality rates.[2]
The genus includes four species:
- Elizabethkingia anophelis, isolated from Anopheles mosquitoes, can cause respiratory tract illness in humans,[3][4] and involved in an 2016 outbreak centered in Wisconsin.
- Elizabethkingia endophytica, isolated from blemished stems of sweet corn, Zea mays[5]
- Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, can cause outbreaks of neonatal meningitis in premature newborns and infants[6]
- Elizabethkingia miricola, isolated from condensation water in Space Station Mir[7]
References
- ↑ Kim KK, Kim MK, Lim JH, Park HY, Lee ST (2005). "Transfer of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Chryseobacterium miricola to Elizabethkingia gen. nov. as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and Elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55 (Pt 3): 1287–93. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63541-0. PMID 15879269.
- ↑ Teo J, Tan SY, Liu Y, Tay M, Ding Y, Li Y, Kjelleberg S, Givskov M, Lin RT, Yang L (2014). "Comparative Genomic Analysis of Malaria Mosquito Vector-Associated Novel Pathogen Elizabethkingia anophelis". Genome Biology and Evolution 6 (5): 1158–65. doi:10.1093/gbe/evu094. PMC 4041001. PMID 24803570.
- ↑ Kämpfer P, Matthews H, Glaeser SP, Martin K, Lodders N, Faye I (2011). "Elizabethkingia anophelis sp. nov., isolated from the midgut of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 61 (Pt 11): 2670–5. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.026393-0. PMID 21169462.
- ↑ Wisconsin Department of Health Services: "Wisconsin 2016 Elizabethkingia anophelis outbreak", March 11, 2016
- ↑ Kämpfer P, Busse HJ, McInroy JA, Glaeser SP (2015). "Elizabethkingia endophytica sp. nov., isolated from Zea mays and emended description of Elizabethkingia anophelis Kämpfer et al. 2011". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 65 (7): 2187–93. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.000236. PMID 25858248.
- ↑ King EO (1959). "Studies on a group of previously unclassified bacteria associated with meningitis in infants". American Journal of Clinical Pathology 31 (3): 241–7. doi:10.1093/ajcp/31.3.241. PMID 13637033.
- ↑ Li Y, Kawamura Y, Fujiwara N, Naka T, Liu H, Huang X, Kobayashi K, Ezaki T (2003). "Chryseobacterium miricola sp. nov., a novel species isolated from condensation water of space station Mir". Systematic and Applied Microbiology 26 (4): 523–8. doi:10.1078/072320203770865828. PMID 14666980.
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