Streptococcus acidominimus

It is considered to be a common bacterial pathogen in veterinary medicine but is rarely pathogenic in humans.^[2] S. acidominimus is a major cause of infection for people who are critically ill. Due to the uncommonness and rarity of obtaining it in clinical bacteriology,^[3] S. acidominimus infections and limited cases, it is difficult to assess its epidemiologic and clinical significance. This also means that identifying S. acidominimus as a causative species is difficult.^[1] In recent years, S. acidominimus has been showing increased resistance to antimicrobial agents such as beta-lactams which is unusual since this species is usually sensitive to them.^[4]

In humans, this species have been reported in cases of pneumonia, pericarditis, meningitis, otitis median, sepsis, endocarditis and brain abscess.^[1]

Streptococcus acidominimus has been shown to be sensitive to antimicrobial agents.