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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov 4;13(11):e238302.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2020-238302.

Staphylococcus schleiferi diabetic foot osteomyelitis and bacteraemia in an immunocompromised host

Minh Thu Thi Nguyen  1 , Nicholas R Ahern  2 , Meghan K Train  2
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Staphylococcus schleiferi diabetic foot osteomyelitis and bacteraemia in an immunocompromised host

Minh Thu Thi Nguyen et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

Staphylococcus schleiferi is a Gram-positive coccus bacterium first discovered in 1988 that is typically associated with skin and ear infections in dogs, cats and birds. It is infrequently described as a human pathogen. There are, however, emerging reports of S. schleiferi infections in diverse clinical scenarios in humans, particularly in patients with weakened immune systems. S. schleiferi may be underrecognised due to limitations in routine microbiology diagnostic protocols and mislabelling as other Staphylococcus sp. We present a rare case of S. schleiferi diabetic foot osteomyelitis with subsequent bacteraemia in an immunocompromised host.

Keywords: bone and joint infections; infectious diseases.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Ulceration in the patient’s left heel on the day of presentation.
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X-ray of the left foot with bony irregularity in the posterior calcaneus.
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