Clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus argenteus infections in Thailand.

ABSTRACT: Molecular typing of 246 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from unselected patients in Thailand showed that 10 (4.1%) were actually Staphylococcus argenteus. Contrary to the suggestion that S. argenteus is less virulent than S. aureus, we demonstrated comparable rates of morbidity, death, and health care-associated infection in patients infected with either of these two species.

SUBMITTER: Thaipadungpanit J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4390622 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature