Vogesella urethralis-induced aspiration pneumonia and bacteremia in an elderly man: a first case report and literature review

Table 3 Characteristics of patients from whom Vogesella species were isolated

	Age	Sex	Source of the infection	Symptoms	History	Immunosuppressive agent	Specimen	Bacteria	Identification methods	Diagnosis	Susceptibility	Used antibiotics	Mortality
Yu et al., 2020, China [2]	71	female	river snail	fever, inflamed limbs	chronic heart failure, chronic bronchitis, abnormal renal function, rheumatoid arthritis	dexamethasone	blood	V. perlucida	16 s rRNA gene analysis	bacteremia, soft tissue infection	described in Table S 1	Vancomycin, Levofloxacin	alive
Kuroiwa et al., 2020, Japan [4]	46	female	hot spring	fever, low back pain	fibroid, endometriosis	not described	blood	V. perlucida	16 s rRNA gene analysis	bacteremia, pyosalpinx	not described	Ceftriaxone, Ampicillin/sulbactam	alive
Lan et al., 2020, China [3]	not described	not described	not described	not described	chronic renal, failure	not described	urine	V.urethralis	16 s rRNA gene analysis	not described	described in Table S 2	not described	not described
Our case, Japan	82	male	unknown	fever, sputum, dyspnea	chronic renal failure, emphysema, chronic pulmonary aspergillosis	none	blood, sputum	V.urethralis	16 s rRNA gene analysis	bacteremia, pneumonia	described in Table 2	Ampicillin/sulbactam, Piperacillin/tazobactam	died

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