 It may be normally present in fish and frogs; it may be isolated from chronic infectious states, as in the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients.In 1959, American bacteriologist Elizabeth O.King (who isolated "Kingella kingae" in 1960) was studying unclassified bacteria associated with pediatric meningitis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, when she isolated an organism (CDC group IIa) that she named "Flavobacterium meningosepticum" ("Flavobacterium" means "the yellow bacillus" in Latin; "meningosepticum" likewise means "associated with meningitis and sepsis").