Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive, spherical bacterium that frequently colonizes the skin and the nasal passages of healthy people and can cause infections ranging from minor skin and soft-tissue lesions to serious respiratory disease, including pneumonia, as well as bloodstream infection and toxic shock synd…
Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive, spherical bacterium that frequently colonizes the skin and the nasal passages of healthy people and can cause infections ranging from minor skin and soft-tissue lesions to serious respiratory disease, including pneumonia, as well as bloodstream infection and toxic shock syndrome. It is a major cause of healthcare-associated and antibiotic-resistant infection, most notably as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), which makes it an important pathogen in respiratory and critical-care medicine. In relation to respiratory disease, S. aureus is significant both as a colonizer of the upper airway and as an agent of lower respiratory tract infection. Research in this journal's corpus addresses the organism's epidemiology, identification and resistance profile, including MRSA colonization and risk factors in vulnerable populations, in-vitro susceptibility testing against agents such as iclaprim, daptomycin, linezolid and vancomycin, and molecular confirmation of staphylococcal strains. Related studies examine antimicrobial resistance surveillance, the antibacterial screening of natural and plant-derived compounds, and the recovery of S. aureus from clinical, veterinary and environmental sources. Together these aspects span carriage, identification, resistance mechanisms, epidemiology and the search for effective therapies against a versatile and clinically consequential pathogen.
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