Spondylodiscitis and bacteremia due to Staphylococcus hyicus in an immunocompetent man.

Introduction: Staphylococcus hyicus is a coagulase-variable Staphylococcus spp. well-known by veterinarians since it is the major agent of a severe cutaneous infection in piglets called exudative epidermitis. In other species the symptoms of infection are quite different.