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Health | Potentially pathogenic bacteria found in nasal membranes, skin, hair follicles, and perineum of warm-blooded animals. They may cause a wide range of infections and intoxications. (references) |
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Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that causes illnesses ranging from minor skin infections and abscesses, to life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis and septicemia.
Each year some 500,000 patients in American hospitals contract a staphylococcal infection. By changing its chemical makeup slightly to evade attack, S. aureus has become resistant to many commonly used antibiotics. In 1997, physicians were alarmed to encounter staph strains that resist even vancomycin, which used to work when all else failed.
Staphylococcus aureus appears as a gram-postive coccus, in grape-like clusters when viewed through a microscope. More characteristic is its appearance when grown out on agar plates. It appears as large, round golden-yellow (which is where the name aureus comes from) colonies, with beta-haemolysis of blood agar.
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Crosswords: STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS |
| Specialty definitions using "STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS": Arthritis, Infectious ♦ Exfoliatins ♦ Lysostaphin ♦ Maxillary Sinusitis ♦ Pneumonia, Staphylococcal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (aureus, staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus Phages). |
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 | Scanning electron micrograph of Staphylococcus aureus. Credit: CDC. |  | Blood agar plate culture showing Haemophilus influenzae satelliting around Staphylococcus aureus. Credit: CDC. |
 | Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive diplococcal organism, usually affecting the debilitated, elderly or the immunocompromised individual, and is often responsible for nosocomial infections acquired during lengthy hospital stays. Credit: CDC. |  | The toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus causes the illness "staphylococcal intoxication". Symptoms of this intoxication include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium. (references) | |
Most of the infections in Hyper-IgE are caused by Staphylococcus aureus. (references) | ||
A commonplace bacterium such as Staphylococcus aureus or a usually harmless fungus such as Aspergillus may cause skin infections and rashes, liver abscesses, fever and persistent cough. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
staphylococcus aureus | 226 |
staphylococcus aureus infection | 5 |
staphylococcus aureus information | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | meticilline-resistente staphylococcus aureus (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus). (various references) | ||||
French | staphylococcus aureus résistant la méthiciline (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus). (various references) | ||||
Greek | χρυσίζων σταφυλόκοκκος. (various references) | ||||
Italian | staphylococcus aureus. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aphylococcusstay aureusay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | staphylococcus aureus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-u-u-u-y" | |
-5 letters: polysaccharoses. | |
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