Table 1.

Comparison of initial symptoms and outpatient treatment in recent documented case reports.

Author (year)	Assessed as outpatient	Outpatient antibiotics prescribed?	Initial symptoms
Tawa et al. (2016) [3]	Yes	None	odynophagia, left cervical pain, and fever
Stefan et al. (2016) [4]	Yes	Clarithromycin	1-week history of severe sore throat and fever
Roland et al. (2016) [5]	Yes	Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid	dental infection present in the left inferior premolar for a month
Chamseddin et al. (2016) [6]	Yes	Amoxicillin	severe odynophagia and sore throat
Fielding et al. (2016) [7]	Yes	Clarithromycin	7-day history of worsening dysphagia, non-productive cough, hoarseness, fever, rigors, general malaise and anorexia
Panchavati et al (2017) [8]	Yes	Ampicillin/sulbactam and amoxicillin	fever, rigors and sore throat 7 days
Faraone et al. (2016) [9]	Yes	Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid	2-week history of sore throat, high fever, and mild neck tenderness
Kumral et al. (2017) [10]	No	None	7 day history of fever (Tmax 40.4C), left sided throat pain, fatigue, and myalgias
Budhram et al. (2017) [11]	No	None	1 week of right sided partial ophthalmoplegia and ptosis
			4 month history of headache
Farhan et al. (2016) [12]	Yes	Unspecific IV antibiotics	two weeks history of right sided neck swelling associated with high grade fever, dysphagia, dysphonia and difficulty in opening her mouth
Birkner (2017) [13]	No	None	Previously fractured elbow Swelling of the left arm sore throat, shivering attacks, and fever accompanied by growing nausea
Meher-Homji et al. (2017) [14]	No	None	fever, pharyngitis and cervical lymphadenopathy
De Giorgi et al. (2017) [15]	Yes	Clarithromycin and ceftriaxone	occipital headache, malaise, hacking cough, chest pain exacerbated by inspiration, and fever for one month.
Kobayashi et al. (2017) [16]	No	None	Hemoptysis and a fever. pharyngeal pain
Osman et al. (2017) [17]	No	None	swelling of the right side of the neck (10 days) , fever, chills and difficulty swallowing (2 months)