“…The most prominent is its association with infective endocarditis, which is a relatively rare, but potentially fatal disease affecting the heart valves or endocardium of patients with predisposing heart defects. For further details, the interested reader is directed to several excellent reviews on this topic (Cahill & Prendergast, , ). In even rarer instances, S. sanguinis has also been reported to cause both meningitis and severe bacteremia, sometimes as a result of surgical procedures or cancer (Kampe et al ., ; Macaluso et al ., ; Moon et al ., ; Liu et al ., ; Bijlsma et al ., ).…”