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Table 1 Chronological list of case reports of S. uberis infection

From: Streptococcus uberis and Staphylococcus aureus forefoot and blood stream co-infection in a haemodialysis patient: a case report

Author, year

Patients

Type of infection

Diagnostic testa

Treatment

Outcome

Sarkar, 1989 [7]

3 healthy adults

pneumonia, bacteraemia

API 20 STREP

iv penicillin

recovered

Sanchez,1991 [12]

healthy adult (rancher)

hepatic abscess

VITEK

drainage, ampicillin

recovered

Murdoch, 1997 [8]

9-year-old child

abscess after scalp laceration

API 20 STREP

drainage, amoxicillin, cotrimoxazole

recovered

Bouskraoui, 1998 [10]

11-month-old child with Down syndrome, atriventricular canal

endocarditis

not specified

amoxicillin, clavulanic acid, gentamiycin

recovered

Lazinska, 2005 [6]

renal transplant recipient

urinary tract infection

API 20 STREP

not specified

not stated

Huang, 2007 [19]

2-year-old child, acute myeloid leukaemia

bacteraemia

not specified

not specified

not stated

Kessel, 2008 [9]

healthy adult

gonarthritis, muscular abscess

VITEK

surgery, cefuroxime, clindamycin, penicillin

impaired joint mobility

Velez-Montoya, 2010 [11]

adult, diabetes, peritoneal dialysis

postoperative endophthalmitis

not specified

intravitreal and iv ampicillin

blind in one eye

Gülen, 2013 [5]

healthy, age not specified

urinary tract infection (7 out of 148 samples)

conventional phenotyping BBL Crystalâ„¢

not specified

not stated

  1. aManufacturers of diagnostic tests: API 20 STREP and VITEK are provided by BioMerieux, France, and BBL Crystalâ„¢ is provided by Becton Dickinson and Company, USA