Epidemiology and Characteristics of Elizabethkingia spp. Infections in Southeast Asia.

ABSTRACT: 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, endophthalmitis, and sepsis and is emerging as a global threat including in Southeast Asia. Elizabethkingia infections tend to be associated with high mortality rates (18.2-41%) and are mostly observed in neonates and immunocompromised patients. Difficulties in precisely identifying Elizabethkingia at the species level by traditional methods have hampered our understanding of this genus in human infections. In Southeast Asian countries, hospital outbreaks have usually been ascribed to E. meningoseptica, whereas in Singapore, E. anophelis was reported as the main Elizabet

SUBMITTER: Zajmi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9144721 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature