Elizabethkingia miricola is a species of bacterium isolated from condensation water in Space Station Mir,[1] related to Elizabethkingia anophelis, the cause of the 2016 outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis human infections in Wisconsin that began in early November 2015. The genus name Elizabethkingia honors former United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) microbiologist Elizabeth O. King, and the specific epithet is derived from combining the Russian name of the space station from which the bacterium was isolated, "Mir" meaning "peace," and the Latin "incola" meaning "inhabitant," yielding miricola, "inhabitant of the Mir space station."[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Weeksellaceae |
| Genus: | Elizabethkingia |
| Species: | E. miricola
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| Elizabethkingia miricola Li et al. 2003
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A 2017 report[3] identified multiregional outbreaks of a meningitis-like disease caused by Elizabethkingia miricola in black-spotted frog farms in China in 2016. The strain was identified by whole-genome sequencing to be closely related to isolates from humans, indicating that E. miricola is capable of being epizootic and may pose a health threat to humans.[3]
References
edit- ^ Ying Li, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Nagatoshi Fujiwara, Takashi Naka, Hongsheng Liu, Xinxiang Huang, Kazuo Kobayashi & Takayuki Ezaki. 2003. Chryseobacterium miricola sp. nov., a novel species isolated from condensation water of space station Mir. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 26(4): 523–528; doi:10.1078/072320203770865828, PMID 14666980.
- ^ Kwang Kyu Kim, Myung Kyum Kim, Ju Hyoung Lim, Hye Yoon Park, Sung-Taik Lee. 2005. Transfer of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Chryseobacterium miricola to Elizabethkingia gen. nov. as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and Elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 55: 1287-1293; http://ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.63541-0.
- ^ a b Hu R, Yuan J, Meng Y, et al. Pathogenic Elizabethkingia miricola Infection in Cultured Black-Spotted Frogs, China, 2016. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2017;23(12):2055-2059. doi:10.3201/eid2312.170942.
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