1. Describe how the approach to the patient who has a staphylococcal infection varies by age, immune status, and clinical presentation. 2. Recognize that the management of staphylococcal infection in the pediatric patient relies on prompt diagnosis and localization of focus. 3. Utilize susceptibility data to plan antimicrobial therapy for staphylococcal infection. 4. Delineate the pharmacokinet...

Abstract Staphylococcal superantigen (SAg) toxins are the most notable virulence factors associated with Staphylococcus aureus , which is a pathogen serious community and hospital acquired infections in humans various diseases animals. Recently, SAg have become superfamily 29 types, including staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) emetic activity, SE-like (SEls) that do not induce emesis primate mod...

background: staphylococcus aureus, the major virulence factor of hospital and community acquired infections, secretes numerous exotoxins (super antigens), which may affect immunological and inflammatory status in psoriatic skin lesion. objectives: this study is designed to compare the s. aureus super antigens level in sera of psoriatic patients with normal cases (nevus). patients and methods: a...

The most common pathogens in surgical site infections after total hip and knee arthroplasty are methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and coagulase-negative staphylococci. Patients colonized with MSSA or MRSA have an increased risk for a staphylococcal infection at the site of a total hip or knee arthroplasty. Most colonized individuals who ...

Staphylococci are a worldwide cause of human and animal infections including life-threatening cases of bacteraemia, wound infections, pyogenic lesions, and mastitis. Enterotoxins produced by some staphylococcal species were recognized as causative agents of staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP), being also able to interrupt human and animal immune responses. Only enterotoxins produced by Staphylo...

Introduction Staphylococcal endocarditis has a very high mortality rate3' 5 and difficulties in its therapy have not been lessened by the emergence of strains of the organism resistant to the commonly used antibiotics. Recently, encouraging reports of the use of vancomycin in resistant staphylococcal infections have appeared." 2, 4 Since the number of patients treated is small, the following ca...