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It was identified as <jats:italic>S. ficaria<\/jats:italic> and the antibiotic susceptibility test was performed by automated Vitek II (bioMerieux). The tested <jats:italic>S. ficaria<\/jats:italic> strain was susceptible to amikacin, gentamicin, cefepime, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, imipenem, meropenem, tigecycline and ciprofloxacin. This strain was resistant to ampicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cephalothin, cefoxitine, cefuroxime and ceftriaxone. The patient was treated successfully (80 mg trimethoprim\/400 mg sulfamethoxazole twice daily for 7 days)<jats:italic>S. ficaria<\/jats:italic> is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for intestinal colonization or serious infections such as septicaemia, gall bladder empyema in immunocompromised patients. The fig tree and fig play an important role in human colonization. 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