Domain Bacteria Class Flavobacteria Family Flavobacteriaceae Rank Species | Phylum Bacteroidetes Order Flavobacteriales Genus Elizabethkingia | |
Similar Elizabethkingia, Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, Chryseobacterium, Flavobacteriaceae, Bergeyella zoohelcum | ||
Elizabethkingia miricola is a species of bacterium isolated from condensation water in Space Station Mir, 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."
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