Elizabethkingia anophelis
| Elizabethkingia anophelis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Weeksellaceae |
| Genus: | Elizabethkingia |
| Species: | E. anophelis |
| Binomial name | |
| Elizabethkingia anophelis Kämpfer et al. 2011 | |
Elizabethkingia anophelis is a yellow-pigmented, rod-shaped, gram-negative bacterium in the Flavobacteriaceae family. E. anophelis was first isolated from the midgut of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. It is one of several potentially pathogenic species in the genus Elizabethkingia and has been identified in the 2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak.