Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Staphylococcus argenteus Infections in Thailand
Thaipadungpanit J., Amornchai P., Nickerson EK., Wongsuvan G., Wuthiekanun V., Limmathurotsakul D., Peacock SJ.
ABSTRACT Molecular typing of 246 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from unselected patients in Thailand showed that 10 (4.1%) were actually Staphylococcus argenteus . Contrary to the suggestion that S. argenteus is less virulent than S. aureus , we demonstrated comparable rates of morbidity, death, and health care-associated infection in patients infected with either of these two species.