To: BenLurkin
Elizabethkingiam? My goodness, what did Elizabeth King do to warrant having a deadly disease named after her?
2 posted on
03/20/2016 7:57:53 AM PDT by
exDemMom
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To: exDemMom
She discovered it. Apparently there is another germ that she discovered called kingella. Can't say, as a scientist in 1960, she didn't know how to market herself.
5 posted on
03/20/2016 8:04:20 AM PDT by
ichabod1
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To: exDemMom
8 posted on
03/20/2016 8:07:34 AM PDT by
ex91B10
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To: exDemMom
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is a gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium widely distributed in nature (e.g. fresh water, salt water, or soil). It may be normally present in fish and frogs but is not normally present in human microflora. In 1959 American bacteriologist Elizabeth O. King (who isolated Kingella in 1960), was studying unclassified bacteria associated with pediatric meningitis at the CDC in Atlanta, when she isolated an organism (CDC group IIa) that she named Flavobacterium meningosepticum (Flavobacterium means “the yellow bacillus” in Latin; meningosepticum likewise means “associated with meningitis and sepsis”).
Source: Wikipedia
19 posted on
03/20/2016 8:31:33 AM PDT by
trisham
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To: exDemMom
Sorry! I should have read further.
20 posted on
03/20/2016 8:33:18 AM PDT by
trisham
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