First isolation of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron from a patient with a cholesteatoma and experiencing meningitis.
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.
Feuillet
Lionel
L
Service de Neurologie Pr ALI CHERIF, Hôpital de la Timone, 264 rue Saint Pierre, 13005 Marseille, France. lionel.feuillet@mail.ap-hm.fr
Carvajal
Joseph
J
Sudre
Isabelle
I
Pelletier
Jean
J
Thomassin
Jean Marc
JM
Drancourt
Michel
M
Cherif
André Ali
AA
D001439:Bacteroides / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001442:Bacteroides Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D002781:Cholesteatoma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics
D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S