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Volume 22, Number 1—January 2016
Etymologia

Etymologia: Elizabethkingia

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Elizabethkingia [e-lizʺə-beth-kingʹe-ə]

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Thumbnail of Six-day-old blood agar growth of Elizabethkingia meningioseptica with 5 μg vancomycin (with zone of clearing) and 10 μg colistin disks. Source: Dr. Saptarshi via Wikimedia Commons

Figure. Six-day-old blood agar growth of Elizabethkingia meningioseptica with 5 μg vancomycin (with zone of clearing) and 10 μg colistin disks. Source: Dr. Saptarshi via Wikimedia Commons

Named for Elizabeth O. King, a bacteriologist at the US Centers for Disease Control who studied meningitis in infants, Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is a gram-negative, obligate aerobic bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae (Figure). King named the bacterium Flavobacterium (from the Latin flavus, “yellow”) meningosepticum, and in 1994 it was reclassified in the genus Chryseobacterium (from the Greek chryseos, “golden”). In 2005, it was placed in the new genus Elizabethkingia.

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  3. King  EO. Studies on a group of previously unclassified bacteria associated with meningitis in infants. Am J Clin Pathol. 1959;31:2417 .PubMedGoogle Scholar

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DOI: 10.3201/eid2201.et2201

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