The genus Elizabethkingia has recently emerged as a cause of life-threatening infections in
humans, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Several new species in the genus …

Elizabethkingia spp. is a ubiquitous pathogenic bacterium that has been identified as the
causal agent for a variety of conditions such as meningitis, pneumonia, necrotizing fasciitis …

The purpose of this announcement is to effect the valid publication of the following effectively
published new names and new combinations under the procedure described in the …

The genus Chryseobacterium in the family Weeksellaceae is known to be polyphyletic.
Amino acid identity (AAI) values were calculated from whole-genome sequences of species …

The definition of a genus has wide-ranging implications both in terms of binomial species
names and also evolutionary relationships. In recent years, the definition of the genus …

This paper describes a novel alignment-free distance-based procedure for inferring
phylogenetic trees from genome contig sequences using publicly available bioinformatics …

Background Elizabethkingia anophelis is a multi-drug resistant emerging opportunistic
pathogen with a high mortality rate, causing healthcare-associated outbreaks worldwide …

Introduction: Ten years after its introduction into clinical microbiology, MALDI-TOF mass
spectrometry has become the standard routine identification tool for bacteria in most …

Background Vector-borne pathogens must survive and replicate in the hostile environment
of an insect's midgut before successful dissemination. Midgut microbiota interfere with …

Introduction The bacterium Elizabethkingia miricola is a multispecies pathogen associated
with meningitis-like disease that has been isolated from several amphibian species …