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Staphylococcal superantigens promote bacterial persistence following postoperative surgical site infection
2024-07-24
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus is a predominant cause of postoperative surgical site infections and persistent bacteremia. Here we describe a patient that following a total knee arthroplasty subsequently experienced three episodes of S. aureus bacteremia over a period of 4 months. The initial blood stream isolate (SAB-0429) was a clonal complex (CC) 5 and methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA), whereas two subsequent blood...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 91b71add-b845-5ac5-a7b6-1dd3c4943378
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.07.23.24310826
