Staphylococcus epidermidis and its dual lifestyle in skin health and infection

MM Severn, AR Horswill - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The coagulase-negative bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis is a member of the human
skin microbiota. S. epidermidis is not merely a passive resident on skin but actively primes …

Coagulase-negative staphylococci

K Becker, C Heilmann, G Peters - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The definition of the heterogeneous group of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) is
still based on diagnostic procedures that fulfill the clinical need to differentiate between …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical Infections, Antibiotic Resistance, and Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus haemolyticus

HO Eltwisy, HO Twisy, MHR Hafez, IM Sayed… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Staphylococcus haemolyticus (S. haemolyticus) constitutes the main part of the human skin
microbiota. It is widespread in hospitals and among medical staff, resulting in being an …

[HTML][HTML] Coagulase-negative staphylococci pathogenomics

X Argemi, Y Hansmann, K Prola, G Prévost - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CoNS) are skin commensal bacteria. Besides their role
in maintaining homeostasis, CoNS have emerged as major pathogens in nosocomial …

Staphylococcus haemolyticus – an emerging threat in the twilight of the antibiotics age

T Czekaj, M Ciszewski, EM Szewczyk - Microbiology, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Staphylococcus haemolyticus is one of the most frequent aetiological factors of
staphylococcal infections. This species seems to lack the important virulence attributes …

Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus isolates: the “mec alphabet” with specific consideration of mecC, a mec homolog associated with zoonotic S. aureus lineages

K Becker, B Ballhausen, R Köck… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Livestock-associated (LA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
have globally emerged during the past decade. In Europe, this was particularly due to the …

Staphylococcus lugdunensis: a skin commensal with invasive pathogenic potential

S Heilbronner, TJ Foster - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a species of coagulase-negative staphylococcus (CoNS)
that causes serious infections in humans akin to those of S. aureus. It was often misidentified …

Biotic Interactions Shape the Ecological Distributions of Staphylococcus Species

EK Kastman, N Kamelamela, JW Norville, CM Cosetta… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Many metagenomic sequencing studies have observed the presence of closely related
bacterial species or genotypes in the same microbiome. Previous attempts to explain these …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-species host range of staphylococcal phages isolated from wastewater

PC Göller, T Elsener, D Lorgé, N Radulovic… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The host range of bacteriophages defines their impact on bacterial communities and
genome diversity. Here, we characterize 94 novel staphylococcal phages from wastewater …

Review of clinically and epidemiologically relevant coagulase-negative staphylococci in Africa

J Asante, DG Amoako, ALK Abia… - Microbial Drug …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) have engendered substantial interest in recent
years as pathogenic causes of infections in both human and veterinary medicine, especially …