S. Aureus Research Paper

Staphylococcus aureus is a part of the family Staphylococcaceae. Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive coccus that forms in clusters. There are over 30 staphylococcus organisms but S. aureus causes the largest amount of staph infections. The staph infections can include; “skin infections, pneumonia, food poisoning, toxic shock syndrome, and blood poisoning (bacteremia)” (NIH). Staph infections can present in numerous manners including; pimples or boils. An individual can be a carrier of S. aureus but never get an infection. An infection does not only take a day to develop. If an individual has come in contact with the bacterium and is going to develop an infection, it could take only a few days or a great deal longer.
The infections that S. aureus cause can range from soft tissue infections to bloodstream infections, and pneumonia. The largest percentage of S. aureus infections present as skin and soft tissue infections. S. aureus can cause abscesses and cellulitis. An abscess is a pocket of infection that formulates close to the site of an injury, which is usually filled with pus. Around the site of infection is red, painful, warm to the touch and swollen. Cellulitis is "an infection of the underlying layers of the skin which usually results from a scrape or cut in the skin which allows bacteria to enter, although no injury may …show more content…
aureus and MRSA infections have given researchers a large volume of data to analyze yet the underlying cause of the infections is not known. S. aureus has developed unique and intelligent techniques to dodge the impediments placed on it by the human body. S. aureus has a large amount of impressive virulence factors that allow it to survive in conditions that are less than ideal in the human host. Infections commonly occur due to an open wound being subjected to the bacterium. When the hosts immune system is activated, resident phagocytes and epithelial cells present on the skin or in the mucosal membranes