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PRO/EDR> Elizabethkingia anophelis – USA (02): (WI) fatal, community acq., comment, RFI

Other Human Disease -- United StatesCorrection to posting that stated: "This is a particularly curious outbreak for which ProMED would like more information. As stated above and below, this relatively newly characterized bacillus was 1st isolated from the midgut of an anopheline mosquito. Just as in the Lau report, it is not likely that mosquitoes had any role to play in transmission in this unique community-acquired outbreak as Anopheles mosquitos are not an upper USA area species and the time span Read more [...]