Diagnostic pitfalls in identification of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica

Elizabethkingia miricolainfection in multiple anuran species

“…This isolate was reclassified as E. meningoseptica in the same study that misidentified E. miricola isolate CIP108653 as E. meningoseptica based on 16S rRNA sequences (Bernardet et al., 2005). Given the changes in nomenclature and the sometimes challenging identification of Elizabethkingia isolates (de Carvalho Filho, Marson, & Levy, 2017; Han et al., 2016; Matyi, Hoyt, Ayoubi‐Canaan, Hasan, & Gustafson, 2015; Rahim, Gupta, & Aggarwal, 2018), it cannot be excluded that some historic descriptions of bacterial infections similar to the condition described here (Chung, 1990; Green et al, 1999; Mauel, Miller, Frazier, & Hines, 2002; Olson, Gard, Brown, Hampton, & Morck, 1992; Taylor, Simmonds, & Loeffler, 1993) are in fact related to E. miricola infection. This would make E. miricola a more important amphibian pathogen than previously thought.…”