Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Elizabethkingia anophelis – USA (18): (WI) fatal, community acquired
PRO/EDR> Elizabethkingia anophelis – USA (18): (WI) fatal, community acquired
Elizabethkingia -- United StatesThe 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 Read more [...]
