Table 1.

Cases of endocarditis due to Veillonella species.

	Age/gender	Valve involved	Type of valve	Organism	Antibiotics	Surgery	Microbiologic and clinical cure
(1)  [6]	35/M	Mitral	Native	Veillonella alcalescens	Penicillin G, sulfadiazine, heparin, and para-aminohippurate for 18 months	No	Yes
(2)  [8]	60/M	Aortic	Native	Veillonella alcalescens	Cephapirin and gentamicin (2 weeks) and oral penicillin V for 6 months	Yes	Yes
(3)  [5]	57/F	Mitral	Prosthetic	Veillonella dispar	Ampicillin 2 weeks and clindamycin and metronidazole 2 weeks	Yes	Yes
(4)  [12]	NA	Mitral, aortic, and tricuspid	NA	Veillonella parvula	Clindamycin	No	Yes
(5)  [13]	51/M	Mitral	Prosthetic	Veillonella alcalescens	Penicillin G for 6 weeks	Yes	Yes
(6)  [4]	56/M	Mitral	Prosthetic	Veillonella dispar	Penicillin G for 6 weeks	No	Yes
(7)  [7]	49/M	Mitral	Prosthetic	Veillonella parvula	Metronidazole for 6 weeks	Yes	Yes
(8)  [9]	75/F	Mitral and aortic	Native	Veillonella montpellierensis	Amoxicillin (6 weeks) and gentamicin (3 weeks)	No	Information not available
(9)  Present work	76/M	Mitral	Native	Veillonella	Ceftriaxone for 6 weeks	No	Yes

M: male; F: female; NA: not available.