| elizabethkingia anophelis bacteremia is associated with clinically significant infections and high mortality. | unlike elizabethkingia meningoseptica, the clinical importance of e. anophelis is poorly understood. we determined the clinical and molecular epidemiology of bacteremia caused by elizabethkingia-like species from five regional hospitals in hong kong. among 45 episodes of elizabethkingia-like bacteremia, 21 were caused by elizabethkingia, including 17 e. anophelis, three e. meningoseptica and one e. miricola; while 24 were caused by other diverse genera/species, as determined by 16s rrna gene seq ... | 2016 | 27185741 |
| evidence for elizabethkingia anophelis transmission from mother to infant, hong kong. | elizabethkingia anophelis, recently discovered from mosquito gut, is an emerging bacterium associated with neonatal meningitis and nosocomial outbreaks. however, its transmission route remains unknown. we use rapid genome sequencing to investigate 3 cases of e. anophelis sepsis involving 2 neonates who had meningitis and 1 neonate's mother who had chorioamnionitis. comparative genomics revealed evidence for perinatal vertical transmission from a mother to her neonate; the 2 isolates from these p ... | 2015 | 25625669 |