It is produced by staphylococci that colonize the skin and act specifically against their main competitor there, the corynebacteria. This specificity is presumably mediated by a very special ...

epidermidis, and is present in other staphylococci tested. Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element (ACME)May Contribute to Prolonged Skin Survival Arginine catabolic mobile element is thought to have ...

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The study was recently published in The ISME Journal, and the results show that the composition of the microbiome influences how well multi-resistant staphylococci can thrive in the nose.

Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of invasive infections, yet most assessments of prevalence are based on health care-based samples. We computed population-based estimates of nasal carriage of S ...

Bacteraemia and infective endocarditis are significantly more frequent post-TAVI, urging a rethink of antibiotic ...

If definite and possible bacterial pathogens are considered (coagulase negative staphylococci taken as possible bacterial pathogens), the time to positivity was 89% at 36 hours and 97% at 48 hours.