Postoperative Hardware-Related Infection from Kytococcus schroeteri: Its Association with Prosthetic Material and Hematological Malignancies—A Report of a Case and Review of Existing Literature

Table 1

Reported cases of Kytococcus infection.

Age (years)/Sex	Immunocompromising condition	Primary source of infection	Therapy	Outcome	Report
34/F	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Vancomycin, rifampin, and gentamicin	Recovered	Becker et al. [1]
71/F	Asthma on chronic prednisone therapy	Pneumonia/bacteremia	Ceftriaxone and ofloxacin	Deceased	Mohammedi et al. [3]
73/M	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Teicoplanin, rifampin, and gentamicin	Recovered	Le Brun et al. [4]
49/F	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Vancomycin and gentamicin, followed by pristinamycin and vancomycin	Recovered	Mnif et al. [5]
38/F	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Vancomycin and gentamicin, followed by levofloxacin and rifampin	Recovered	Aepinus et al. [6]
70/M	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Amoxicillin and gentamicin	Recovered	Renvoise et al. [7]
1/M	None	VP shunt	Vancomycin and rifampin	Recovered	Jourdain et al. [8]
72/M	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Vancomycin, rifampin, and gentamicin	Recovered	Poyet et al. [9]
64/M	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Vancomycin, rifampin, and gentamicin	Recovered	Yousri et al. [10]
50/F	Type 2 diabetes	Prosthetic discitis	Ofloxacin and rifampin	Recovered	Jacquier et al. [2]
40/M	Acute myeloid leukemia	Pneumonia/bacteremia	Vancomycin, rifampin, and gentamicin	Deceased	Hodiamont et al. [11]
52/M	Acute myeloid leukemia	Pneumonia/bacteremia	Vancomycin and ceftazidime	Deceased	Hodiamont et al. [11]
43/F	Acute myeloid leukemia	Pneumonia and bacteremia	Vancomycin/piperacillin/tazobactam, vancomycin/meropenem, and linezolid, discharged on TMP/SMX	Recovered	Blennow et al. [12]
68/M	Acute myeloid leukemia	Pneumonia and bacteremia	Vancomycin	Deceased	Nagler et al. [13]
45/M	None	Silicone tendon graft	Oral doxycycline	Recovered	Chan et al. [14]
53/M	None	Prosthetic valve endocarditis	Daptomycin	Recovered	Liu et al. [15]
3/F	Ganglioma	VP shunt	Cefuroxime and gentamicin	Recovered	Schaumburg et al. [16]
51/F	Hairy cell leukemia	Pneumonia and bacteremia	Vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam	Deceased	Amaraneni et al. [17]
80/F	None	Medullary nail	Daptomycin	Recovered	Shah et al. 2017