Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Elizabethkingia anophelis – USA (19): (WI) fatal, community acquired
PRO/EDR> Elizabethkingia anophelis – USA (19): (WI) fatal, community acquired
Elizabethkingia -- United StatesOccasionally, a rare or unknown microbe rears its ugly head and causes disease in humans. Whether it is due to a previously harmless microbe mutating, a disease of animals jumping into humans, or mankind encountering new habitats (and hence, new microbes), epidemiologists lump these bugs into a broad category called "emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases."Some of the latest inductee into this nefarious club is the bacterium _Elizabethkingia anophelis_, named Read more [...]
