title: Postsurgical Pantoea calida meningitis: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pantoea calida, a recently described environmental Enterobacteriaceae organism, has not yet been associated with human infection.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.forename: Nadim
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cassir
authors.forename: Remy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Noudel
authors.forename: Silvestre
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De La Rosa
authors.forename: Pierre-Hugues
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Roche
authors.affiliation: URMITE, UMR63 CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Aix Marseille Université, 13005 Marseille, France. michel.drancourt@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drancourt
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000601:surgery; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D000077731:Meropenem; D008875:Middle Aged; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D013845:Thienamycins / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D013845:Thienamycins; D000077731:Meropenem