Taxonomy
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Formerly known as Flavobacterium and Chryseobacterium meningosepticum

Natural habitat
They are ubiquitous in the environment, in food products, and in an aqueous environment of the hospital, such as the sink, incubators, tapwater, or hemodialysis systems.

They are not a member of the normal human flora.

Clinical significance
The species are also a rare cause of nosocomial infections including bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis and meningitis, especially in immunocompromised patients.

Several studiessuggest that E. anophelis, and not E. meningoseptica, is the predominant human pathogen of this genus, but the identification of this species is difficult.