Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human

الملخص EN

Streptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals.

Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation.

We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S.

thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient admitted to our department due to fever of unknown origin.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of S.

thoraltensis bacteremia in a human and the first reported case of S.

thoraltensis as a cause of fever of unknown origin in human.