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The most dangerous of all the common staphylococcal bacteria. These gram-positive, grape shaped bacteria often cause skin infections, pneumonia, heart valve infections, and bone infections.

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- skin infections such as boils, cellulitis, impetigo, staphylococcal scaled skin syndrome
- food poisoning
- bacteremia, also known as a bloodstream infection
-toxic shock syndrome
- septic arthritis

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S. aureus is spread through touching infected blood or body fluids, most often by contaminated hands. Anyone is capable of getting S. aureus but the people most at risk include:
- diabetics
- cancer patients
- patients with vascular disease
- people with eczema
- people with lung disease
people who inject drugs

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Treatment depends on the strain of S. aureus. Staph bacteria is very adaptable and sometimes can resist most antibiotics used to treat it! Testing S. aureus in a lab is needed to determine the type of infection and may involve multiple antibiotics to treat.

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S. aureus culture

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Common places include sport activities, hospitals and clinics, and IV needles

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Doctors recommend thorough hand washing and using alcohol based hand sanitizers to avoid skin infections

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S. aureus is has been featured in many forms of media. One of my favorite ways to learn about S. aureus is through an episode of "Cells at Work!" Season 1 Episode 10

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notice the grape like clusters on its costume

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S. aureus entering through a scrape wound

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S. aureus being killed by a WBC as seen in the show