Elizabethkingia anophelis

Elizabethkingia anophelis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Weeksellaceae
Genus: Elizabethkingia
Species:
E. anophelis
Binomial name
Elizabethkingia anophelis
Kämpfer et al. 2011

Elizabethkingia anophelis is a yellow-pigmented, rod-shaped, gram-negative bacterium in the Flavobacteriaceae family.[1] Elizabethkingia is isolated from the midgut of Anopheles gambiae G3 mosquitoes reared in captivity.[2][1] The genus Elizabethkingia, named for former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) microbiologist Elizabeth O. King,[3] also includes E. meningoseptica which causes neonatal sepsis and infections in immunocompromised persons, E. endophytica, and E. miricola.

The possibility of the role of mosquitoes in the maintenance and transmission of E. anophelis remains unclear.[4]

  1. ^ a b Kämpfer, P; Matthews, H; Glaeser, SP; Martin, K; Lodders, N; Faye, I (November 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.
  2. ^ Lindh, J.M.; Borg-Karlson, A.-K.; Faye, I. (2008). "Transstadial and horizontal transfer of bacteria within a colony of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) and oviposition response to bacteria-containing water". Acta Tropica. 107 (3): 242–250. doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.06.008. PMID 18671931.
  3. ^ Kim, Kwang Kyu; Kim, Myung Kyum; Lim, Ju Hyoung; Park, Hye Yoon; Lee, Sung-Taik (1 May 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 (3): 1287–1293. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63541-0. PMID 15879269.
  4. ^ Lau, Susanna K.P.; Wu, Alan K.L.; Teng, Jade L.L.; Tse, Herman; Curreem, Shirly O.T.; Tsui, Stephen K.W.; et al. (February 2015). "Evidence for Elizabethkingia anophelis Transmission from Mother to Infant, Hong Kong". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 21 (2): 232–241. doi:10.3201/eid2102.140623. PMC 4313635. PMID 25625669.