TABLE 1.

Summary of helcococcal infections at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System

Case no.	Organism	Strain	Organism(s) co-recovered	Site of infection	Age (yrs)/gender of patient	Underlying disease(s)	Treatment for current episode	History	WBC result based on:
									Gram stain of specimen	Blood test (cells/liter)
1	H. seattlensis sp. nov.a	F5780	NAb	Blood	80/M	CAD,c type 2 diabetes	NA	NA	NA	15.3 × 109
2	H. kunzii	F7676	S. aureus	Toe abscess	25/M	PTSDd	SXT, cephalexin	NA	Negative	NA
3	H. kunzii	F5450	S. aureus	Inner thigh wound from trauma	68/M	CAD, colonic polyps	Vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam inpatient; cephalexin outpatient	Previous episode of wound infection at same site within past mo., treated with SXT without improvement	Negative	6.3 × 109
4	H. sueciensis	F6341	NA	Blood	64/M	Colon carcinoma, CAD	Vancomycin, piperacillin-tazobactam	NA	NA	8.7 × 109
5	H. sueciensis	F6503	Corynebacterium spp., two colony types	Surgical axillary wound	67/M	Axillary squamous cell carcinoma	Vancomycin, piperacillin-tazobactam inpatient; clindamycin outpatient	NA	Moderate	14 × 109

^aThe name H. seattlensis is proposed in the current study.

^bNA, not available.

^cCAD, coronary artery disease.

^dPTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.