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SUBMITTER: Lau SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4868968 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lau Susanna K P SK Chow Wang-Ngai WN Foo Chuen-Hing CH Curreem Shirly O T SO Lo George Chi-Shing GC Teng Jade L L JL Chen Jonathan H K JH Ng Ricky H Y RH Wu Alan K L AK Cheung Ingrid Y Y IY Chau Sandy K Y SK Lung David C DC Lee Rodney A RA Tse Cindy W S CW Fung Kitty S C KS Que Tak-Lun TL Woo Patrick C Y PC
Scientific reports 20160517
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 ...[more]