Elizabethkingia anophelis

Elizabethkingia anophelis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
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] E. anophelis was first isolated from the midgut of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.[1] It is one of several potentially pathogenic species in the genus Elizabethkingia and has been identified in the 2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak.

  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.
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