| Literature DB >> 15750136 |
Lionel Feuillet1, Joseph Carvajal, Isabelle Sudre, Jean Pelletier, Jean Marc Thomassin, Michel Drancourt, André Ali Cherif.
Abstract
A 45-year-old man with a cholesteatoma experienced purulent meningitis. Microbial analysis of cerebrospinal fluid yielded in pure culture a gram-negative bacillus. Phenotypic methods were suggestive of a Bacteroides distasonis or either a Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron or Bacteroides ovatus infection. The isolate was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as B. thetaiotaomicron. This is the first case of B. thetaiotaomicron meningitis in pure culture.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15750136 PMCID: PMC1081257 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.3.1467-1469.2005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948