Table 2.

Four cases of pulmonary abscess in children with S. intermedius infection in our hospital.

Age (years)	Sex	Clinical manifestation	Chest computed tomography	Microbiologic Diagnosis	Antibiotic	Other treatment
10.4	Male	Chest pain	Left lower lobe nodule with adjacent pleural thickening, possibly inflammatory lesion	Pus culture and pleural fluid high throughput	Amoxicillin/Clavulanate Potassium for 7 days and linezolid for 9 days	Pleural puncture and tracheoscopy lavage
5.3	Male	Fever, cough	Abscess in the upper lobe of the right lung with peripheral pneumonitis and pleural effusion on the right	Lavage fluid culture and lavage high throughput	Ceftriaxone sodium for 10 days, linezolid for 10 days, Amoxicillin/Clavulanate Potassium for 2 days	Tracheoscopy lavage
9.6	Male	Fever, cough, chest pain	Right lower lobe inflammation with right encapsulated pleural effusion	Pleural fluid high throughput	Cefoperazone sulbactam sodium for 10 days and linezolid for 7 days	Pleural puncture
1.8	Male	Fever, cough	Pneumonia with right encapsulated pleural effusion with right middle lung atelectasis and abscess	Pleural fluid high throughput	Ceftriaxone sodium for 6 days, linezolid for 15 days	Pleural puncture and drainage