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Clinical and microbiological characteristics of community-acquired Staphylococcus lugdunensis infections in Southern Taiwan.

An-Bang AB Wu, Ming-Cheng MC Wang, Chin-Chung CC Tseng, Wei-Hung WH Lin, Ching-Hao CH Teng, Ay-Huey AH Huang, Kuei-Hsiang KH Hung, Chuan C Chiang-Ni, and Jiunn-Jong JJ Wu

J Clin Microbiol 49(8):3015-8 (2011) PMID 21697317 PMCID PMC3147778

Most Staphylococcus lugdunensis strains (49/59, 83%) were related to clinical infections, were susceptible to most antimicrobial agents with an overall oxacillin-resistant rate of 5% (3/58), and carried relatively great genetic diversity. Community-acquired infections (41/49, 84%) were dominant, often developed in patients with comorbidity, and had rather benign clinical courses without mortality.

DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01138-11
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