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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2005, p. 1467-1469, Vol. 43, No. 3
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1467-1469.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

First Isolation of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron from a Patient with a Cholesteatoma and Experiencing Meningitis

Lionel Feuillet,1* Joseph Carvajal,2 Isabelle Sudre,3 Jean Pelletier,1 Jean Marc Thomassin,3 Michel Drancourt,2 and André Ali Cherif1

Service de Neurologie,1 Fédération de Microbiologie,2 Fédération d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France3

Received 22 July 2004/ Returned for modification 3 September 2004/ Accepted 18 November 2004

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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service de Neurologie Pr ALI CHERIF, Hôpital de la Timone, 264, rue Saint Pierre, 13005 Marseille, France. Phone: 33 4 91 38 59 39. Fax: 33 4 91 38 62 56. E-mail: lionel.feuillet{at}mail.ap-hm.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2005, p. 1467-1469, Vol. 43, No. 3
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1467-1469.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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