| Elizabethkingia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Weeksellaceae |
| Genus: | Elizabethkingia Kim et al., 2005 |
| Species | |
Elizabethkingia is a genus of bacterium described in 2005, named after Elizabeth O. King, the discoverer of the type species.[1] Before this genus being formed in 2005, many of the species of Elizabethkingia were classified in the Chryseobacterium genus.[2] Elizabethkingia has been found in soil, rivers, and reservoirs worldwide.[3]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Henry, Ronnie (January 2016). "Etymologia: Elizabethkingia". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22 (1): 17. doi:10.3201/eid2201.ET2201. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 4698869. PMID 27057563.
- ^ "About Elizabethkingia | Elizabethkingia | CDC". www.cdc.gov. 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2019-07-26.