Elizabethkingia — United States
The CDC is still trying to determine why dozens of patients in the midwest were recently sickened by a rare bloodstream infection caused by the _Elizabethkingia anopheles_ bacterium. “We are still looking for the missing piece,” Maroya S. Walters, PhD, ScM, epidemiologist at the CDC, said at ASM Microbe.
In the largest identified _Elizabethkingia_ outbreak in history, 66 patients in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois — most of them older adults — have been infected with the same strain of
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