Bacteremic skin and soft tissue infection caused by Prevotella loescheii

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Important features of reported P. loescheii infection cases

Patient characteristics	Co-morbidity	Infection	Cultured sample	Susceptibility testing	Treatment	Ref. no.
42 yo M	Decubitus ulcer in an obese bedridden patient	Bacteremic skin and soft tissue infection	Blood and a surgical sample	ND	Ertapenam for 3 weeks	Current case
75 yo M	Dental extraction in a patient with osteoarthritis	Septic arthritis	Synovial fluid	Susceptible to PCN, BL/BL inhibitor, metronidazole	Amoxacillin-clavulante for 4 weeks	[15]
62 yo M	Recurrent sinusitis	Brain subdural abscess	Pus	Susceptible to PCN, BL/BL inhibitor, clindamycin, chloramphenicol.	Chloramphenicol and clindamycin for 5 weeks	[12]
62 yo M	Recurrent sinusitis	Brain subdural abscess	Pus	Resistant to metronidazole.	Chloramphenicol and clindamycin for 5 weeks	[12]
20 yo M	Dental procedures in a patient with R. hip replacement	R. hip prosthetic joint infection	Surgically obtained bone samples	ND	Cefuroxime and fosfomycin X 6 weeks	[14]

Abbreviations: yo year-old, M male, ND not done, PCN penicillin, BL/BL Beta-lactam/Beta-lactamase, R right, ref. No reference number.

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