Table 1. Reported cases of pleural empyema caused by non typhoidal Salmonella.

Author	Number of patients reported	Isolated microorganism	Underlying disease	Type of the infection
Buscaglia, 1978	1	Salmonella Newport	Splenic abscess	Pleural empyema
Chaturvedi et al., 1978	1	Salmonella Newport	Sickle cell disease	Pleural empyema
Kate et al., 1984	1	Salmonella typhimurium	Alveolar cell carcinoma	Pleural empyema
Santus et al., 1984	1	Salmonella cholera suis	Metastasizing breast cancer	Pleural empyema
Ortiz et al., 1991	1	Salmonella Enteritidis	Systemic lupus erythematosus	Pleural empyema
Gill et al., 1996	1	Salmonella Enteritidis	Small cell bronchogenic carcinoma	Pleural empyema
Carel et al., 1977	1	Nontyphoid Salmonella	Complication of a malignant pleural effusion in an immunocompromised patient	Pleural empyema
Wolday et al., 1997	1	Salmonella Enteritidis	HIV	Pleural empyema
Roguin et al., 1999	1	Salmonella Mendoza	Myelodysplastic syndrome	Pleural empyema
Ramanathan et al., 2000	2	Salmonella Senftenberg	One patient with diabetes mellitus and the other one with gallbladder carcinoma	Pleural empyema
Rim et al., 2000	1	Salmonella Group B	Diabetes mellitus	Pleural empyema
de Lope et al., 2004		Salmonella Enteritidis	Age over 50 years old	Pleural empyema
Crum et al., 2005	1	Nontyphoid Salmonella	Immunosuppression	Pleural empyema
Takiguchi et al., 2008	1	Salmonella Livingstone	Tuberculosis	Chronic empyema
Yang et al., 2008	1	Nontyphoid Salmonella	A 26-year-old male patient, immunocompetent	Pleural empyema
Kam et al., 2012	1	Group D Salmonella	Underlying pulmonary pathology, secondary to an extensive smoking history	Pleural empyema
Pathmanathan et al., 2015	1	Salmonella typhimurium	Mild neutropenia (1.25×109 l−1)	Pleural empyema