Taxonomy
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Formerly Flavobacterium indologenes,

Apathogen: C.ginsenosidimutans, C.hagamense, C.joostei, C.oranimense, C.scophthalmum

Natural habitat
They are ubiquitous in the environment, in food products, in an aqueous environment of a hospital, such as; the sink, incubators, water from the tap, hemodialysis systems and all kind of aqueous solutions.

They are not a member of the normal human flora.

Clinical significance
Transmission through contaminated equipment or solutions.
Origin is not always known.
Almost never a clinical significance.

Described as a cause of bacteremia in immunocompromised patients or hospital infection through contaminated instruments
and has been identified as the cause of neonatal meningitis.

No transmission from human to human