Look Who's Talking: Host and Pathogen Drivers of Staphylococcus epidermidis Virulence in Neonatal Sepsis

IA Joubert, M Otto, T Strunk, AJ Currie - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Preterm infants are at increased risk for invasive neonatal bacterial infections. S.
epidermidis, a ubiquitous skin commensal, is a major cause of late-onset neonatal sepsis …

Development of a novel core genome MLST scheme for tracing multidrug resistant Staphylococcus capitis

Z Wang, C Gu, L Sun, F Zhao, Y Fu, L Di… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Staphylococcus capitis, which causes bloodstream infections in neonatal intensive care
units, is a common cause of healthcare-associated infections. Thus, a standardized high …

Improved Genomic Prediction of Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolation Sources with a Novel Polygenic Score

KT Hellmann, L Challagundla, BM Gray… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus epidermidis infections can be challenging to diagnose due to the species
frequent contamination of clinical specimens and indolent course of infection. Nevertheless …