Benign-turned-deadly bacterium baffles scientists
As patient count rises, source of Elizabethkingia infections remains mysterious
![Elizabethkingia bacteria](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/062016_lb_Elizabethkingia_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
STILL NO ANSWER The source of infection with Elizabethkingia bacteria (shown here growing on a blood agar plate) in Wisconsin and two other states remains unknown.
Photo courtesy of the CDC Special Bacteriology Reference Lab