| 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 in the order of Flavobacteriales. It was established in 2005 from a branch in of the genus Chryseobacterium,[1] and named after Elizabeth O. King, the discoverer of the type species.[2] Elizabethkingia has been found in soil, rivers, and reservoirs worldwide.[3] The genus contains several pathogenic species, such as E. meningoseptica and E. anophelis.
- ^ Henry, Ronnie (January 2016). "Etymologia: Elizabethkingia". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22 (1): 17. doi:10.3201/eid2201.ET2201. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 4698869. PMID 27057563.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "About Elizabethkingia | Elizabethkingia | CDC". www.cdc.gov. 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2019-07-26.