Table 2.

Summary of cases with invasive Streptococcus acidominimus

Reference	Year	Country	Gender	Age	Community acquired	Specimen	Mixed infection	Underlying conditions	Infection loci
[3]	1988	Japan	M	41	Yes	Cerebral spinal fluid	No	None	Pneumonia, pericarditis
[4]	2003	USA	M	15	Yes	Blood	No	Ventricular septal defect	Pneumonia, pericarditis
[5]	2003	Israel	M	12	Yes	Pus drainage	No	None	Otitis media (Gradenigo’s syndrome)
[7]	2004	China	M	34	Yes	Pus drainage	No	Ovarian cyst	Abdominal encapsulated effusion
[2]	2008	USA	M	55	Yes	Pleural effusion	No	Hypertension, paranoid schizophrenia	Thoracic cavity
[6]	2007	USA	M	60	Yes	Pus drainage	No	None	Brain abscess
[8]	2008	USA	F	80	Yes	Blood	No	Aortic valve replacement, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease	Prosthetic valve endocarditis
			M	76	Yes	Blood	No	Non-small cell lung cancer, hypertension, coronary artery disease	Pneumonia
Present study	2011 to 2012	China	F	67	No	Pus drainage	No	Acute cholecystitis, post- endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage	Gallbladder fossa
			M	60	No	Pus drainage	No	Esophageal cancer, post operation	Peritonitis
			F	63	No	Pus drainage	No	Liver cancer, liver transplantation	Encapsulated pleural effusion
			Fa	55	Unknown	Blood	Yes	Maintenance hemodialysis	Sepsis with no focus
			M	52	No	Blood	No	Liver cirrhosis and hepatitis-related glomerulonephritis	Sepsis with incomplete intestinal obstruction

^aThe infectious environment for this patient was undetermined because she was infected before admission, but she had long-term maintenance hemolysis. The mixed microorganism for her was Enterococcus faecalis. F, female; M, male.