Staphylococcus aureus: a community pathogen

LG Miller, SL Kaplan - Infectious disease clinics of North America, 2009 - Elsevier
Staphylococcus aureus is a common human pathogen. S aureus infections most commonly
clinically manifest as skin infections. There has been much interest in S aureus infections in
the community over the past decade because of the rise of community-associated methicillin-
resistant S aureus (CA-MRSA) infections, which have emerged globally over a relatively
short period of time. In contrast to health care-associated methicillin resistant S aureus (HA-
MRSA), circulating strains of CA-MRSA have characteristic pathogenesis, strain …