Table 3.

Details of patients with Staphylococcus lugdunensis bacteremia who had infective endocarditis or metastatic infections

Sex, age (years)	Acquisition	Underling disease(s)	Devices	Methicillin susceptibility	Portal entry	Persistent bacteremia	Detail of infective endocarditis or metastatic infections	Source controla	Antibiotics therapy (days)	30-day mortality
Male, 80	Health care- associated	Thyroid cancer, rectal cancer, post AVR	Aortic valve	Susceptible	Unknown	Not persistent	Infective endocarditis (aortic valve) and Spondylitis	Replacement of aortic valve (two days)	Cefazolin (50) and Gentamicin (15) and Rifampicin (43)	Alive
Male, 74	Hospital- acquired	Severe asthma, polymyositis (methylprednisolone 10 mg), SSS	Pacemaker	Susceptible	Unknown	Not persistent	Pacemaker related infective endocarditis (tricuspid valve) and Spondylitis	Eradicate of pacemaker, Tricuspid valve plasty (two days)	Cefazolin (42)	Alive
Female, 84	Health care-associated	Hemodialysis, pancreas cancer, diabetes	Aortic valve	Resistant	Unknown	Persistent	Infective endocarditis (aortic and mitral valves) CT or MRI were not done; thus, metastatic infection was not detected	Not done	Vancomycin (8) and Levofloxacin (7)	Loss of follow up
Female, 69	Hospital- acquired	Aortitis (prednisone 7 mg), cAVB, diabetes	Pacemaker, subclavian artery stent	Susceptible	Unknown	Persistent	Psoas abscess, TEE was not done	Not done	Cefazolin (47)	Alive
Male, 68	Hospital- acquired	Liver cancer, diabetes	Blood accesses catheter	Resistant	Blood accesses catheter	Not persistent	Liver and subcutaneous abscesses, TTE was not done	Not done	Teicoplanin (25)	Alive

Abbreviations: AVR Atrial valve replacement, TEE Transesophageal echocardiography, TTE Transthoracic echocardiography, cAVB Complete atrioventricular block, SSS Sick sinus syndrome, CT Computer tomography, MRI Magnetic resonance imaging

^aSource control (Days to source control from blood culture collection)