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Case Reports
. 2014 Jun 16:8:195.
doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-8-195.

Postsurgical Pantoea calida meningitis: a case report

Shirley Fritz, Nadim Cassir, Remy Noudel, Silvestre De La Rosa, Pierre-Hugues Roche, Michel Drancourt  1
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Postsurgical Pantoea calida meningitis: a case report

Shirley Fritz et al. J Med Case Rep. .

Abstract

Introduction: Pantoea calida, a recently described environmental Enterobacteriaceae organism, has not yet been associated with human infection.

Case presentation: We report a case of postoperative meningitis caused by P. calida. After pituitary adenoma resection, a 52-year-old Caucasian woman developed febrile meningitis confirmed by cerebrospinal fluid analysis. P. calida was grown in pure culture from this fluid and was firmly identified with partial rpoB gene sequencing. She was cured by a 14-day course of meropenem.

Conclusions: P. calida must be added to the list of opportunistic Enterobacteriaceae pathogens responsible for postsurgical meningitis. It is easily identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

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