Brachyspira pilosicoli bloodstream infections: Case report and review of the literature

Table 1 Characteristics of 9 confirmed cases of bacteremia caused by B. pilosicoli

Ref.	No. of cases	Age	Sex	Underlying disease	Treatment/Outcome
[5]	6^a	77 69	F M	Stroke/hemiplegia Stroke/hemiplegia	Death Death
		55	M	Alcoholic/acute intoxication by ethylene glycol	Death
		69	M	Acute peritonitis (necrosis of caecum)	Operation/recovery
		61	M	Severe arteriopathy	Vascular operation/death
		52	M	Myeloma/alcoholic	Antibiotic therapy/chemotherapy
[6]	1	-^b	M	AIDS/Kaposi's sarcoma	-^a
[7]	1	78	M	Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma/alcoholic/tabagism	Antibiotic therapy/death
This report	1	53	M	Tabagism, cardiogenic shock	Death

^a Previously classified as B. hyodysenteriae, organisms were accurately identified as strains of B. pilosicoli in reference 6; ^b unknown

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