Pantoea species

• Non-encapsulated, non-spore-forming, Gram-negative bacillus with yellow pigment
• Member of the Enterobacteriaceae
• Cuases disease mostly in plants, and rarely in humans
• Present in the feces of cotton beetles
• Found on plants, on buckwheat, and in human feces
• About 20 species, of which human diseases have been described with P. agglomerans, P. brenneri, P. conspicua, P. eucrina, and P. septica