 Elizabethkingia endophytica

Elizabethkingia endophytica is a slightly yellow Gram-stain-negative rod-shaped bacterial strain isolated from the stem of healthy 10-day-old sweet corn ("Zea mays").A comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the isolate showed 99.1, 97.8, and 97.4% similarity to the 16S rRNA gene sequences of the type strains of "Elizabethkingia anophelis", "Elizabethkingia meningoseptica" and "Elizabethkingia miricola", respectively.