#Elizabethkingia hashtag - Bluesky

3 months ago

Microbiology royalty: Elizabeth O. King and the legacy of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica The genus Elizabethkingia comprises Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming aerobic rods in the family Weeksellaceae. These nonglucose-fermenting organisms were long included within Flavobacterium ...

📣 Who is behind #Kingella kingae, #Elizabethkingia
meningoseptica, and several other bacteria? Anne-Marie Dolan et al describe the legacy of Elizabeth O. King, #CDC microbiologist & World War II army officer, for our #Personbehindthename series.

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www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University

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8 months ago

Named for Elizabeth O. King 🇺🇸 bacteriologist at CDC who studied meningitis in infants. King named it Flavobacterium (Latin flavus, “yellow”) meningosepticum. 1994 reclassified in genus Chryseobacterium (Greek chryseos, “golden”).2005:placed in new genus #Elizabethkingia

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University

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8 months ago

#Elizabethkingia #meningoseptica, gram-negative bacillus that is widely distributed in nature. Rarely pathogenic, can cause neonatal meningitis or pneumonia, bacteremia, IE in adults

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University

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11 months ago

Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Elizabethkingia Species: Report from a Reference Laboratory | Journal of Clinical Microbiology Elizabethkingia species are Gram-negative bacilli that were most recently linked to a cluster of infections in the Midwestern United States from 2016 to 2017. Inappropriate empirical and directed anti...

antibitoics for #elizabethkingia tmp-smx, minocycline, FQ, pip/tazo journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University

@iuidfellowship

11 months ago

Named for Elizabeth O. King 🇺🇸 bacteriologist at CDC who studied meningitis in infants. King named it Flavobacterium (Latin flavus, “yellow”) meningosepticum. 1994 reclassified in genus Chryseobacterium (Greek chryseos, “golden”).2005:placed in new genus #Elizabethkingia

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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University

@iuidfellowship

11 months ago

#Elizabethkingia #meningoseptica, gram-negative bacillus that is widely distributed in nature. Rarely pathogenic, can cause neonatal meningitis or pneumonia, bacteremia, IE in adults

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Current Research in Microbial Sciences

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1 year ago

Linalool exhibit antimicrobial ability against #Elizabethkingia miricola by disrupting cellular and metabolic functions

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