To the Editor,

I read with interest the correspondence by Tchana-Sato et al. [1] regarding our article “Native valve Staphylococcus capitis infective endocarditis: a mini review” [2]. On behalf of all authors of our original article, I would like to respond to their correspondence.

We appreciate the input from Tchana-Sato et al. The authors indicated that the total number of S. capitis endocarditis is 22 cases and not 13. We appreciate the input and the discrepancy may had resulted from the initial search strategy and is certainly an unintentional omission.

We all agree about the management of S. capitis native valve endocarditis in the sense that such management could be conservative with antibiotics, with the addition of surgical removal of infected pacemaker or prosthetic valve in patients with prosthetic valves and pacemaker-associated endocarditis.