 The bacterium is also a rare cause of nosocomial pneumonia, endocarditis, postoperative bacteremia, and meningitis in immunocompromised adults.Only recently has it also been found to cause soft-tissue infection and sepsis in the immunocompetent and in a case of a fatal necrotizing fasciitis in a diabetic patient.Some 48 cases of "Elizabethkingia" infection resulting in 17 fatalities were reported in Wisconsin over a 5-month period beginning in November 2015.