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Case Reports
. 2004 Sep;42(9):4393-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.9.4393-4395.2004.

Bacteremic infection with Pantoea ananatis

Thierry De Baere  1 , Rita Verhelst, Caroline Labit, Gerda Verschraegen, Georges Wauters, Geert Claeys, Mario Vaneechoutte
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Case Reports

Bacteremic infection with Pantoea ananatis

Thierry De Baere et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Sep.

Abstract

A 73-year-old man was hospitalized for dyspnea and bilateral ankle edema. During his hospital stay he presented anal hemorrhage and developed a high fever after colonoscopy. A set of aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles yielded a pure culture of gram-negative rods, susceptible to all antibiotics tested. The API20E code was 1005133, resulting in a very good identification as Pantoea sp. Subsequent sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene revealed a final identification as Pantoea ananatis. The patient was given intravenous and oral therapy with piperacillin-tazobactam and ofloxacin and recovered completely from his infection.

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Dendrogram of the 16S rDNA sequences of the obtained clinical strain and related species. A rooted tree resulting from a neighbor-joining bootstrap analysis (100 replications) of 16S rRNA gene sequences from the clinical isolate and related species published in GenBank, with Aeromonas hydrophilia as an outgroup, is shown. The bar indicates 1% sequence dissimilarity. *, sequence obtained during this study.
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