Table 1.

Characteristics of three patients with Butyricimonas virosa bacteraemia

Age	Gender	Reason for initial presentation	Clinical presentation	Diagnostic Methods	Susceptibilities	Outcome
72	M	Aortic aneurysm surgery in patient with previously diagnosed adenocarcinoma of colon [3]	Fever 24 days after surgery. Anaerobic blood cultures with Gram-negative bacilli.	16S rRNA gene sequencing	Susceptible: amp, ams, amc, tzp, ipm, mem, cli, mtz	Septic shock and later death due to infection with another organism
81	M	Whipple procedure for adenocarcinoma of duodenum [4]	Fever 18 days after Whipple procedure. Anaerobic blood cultures with Gram-negative bacilli.	MALDI-TOF MS	Resistant: kan, van, cst	Recovered without antibiotic therapy
69	M	Headache and chills	Headache and chills. Acute complicated diverticulitis. Anaerobic blood culture bottles with Gram-negative bacilli.	MALDI-TOF MS	Resistant: pen, ctx. Susceptible: tzp, mtz	Recovered before initiation of oral antibiotic therapy

amc, amoxicillin/clavulanate; amp, ampicillin; ams, ampicillin/sulbactam; cli, clindamycin; cst, colistin; ctx, ceftriaxone; ipm, imipenem; kan, kanamycin; MALDI-TOF MS, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry; mem, meropenem; mtz, metronidazole; pen, penicillin; tzp, piperacillin/tazobactam; van, vancomycin.