what is staphylococcus Aurea's organism seen in urine?
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Staphylococcus aureus (which is occasionally given the nickname golden staph) is a bacterium, frequently living on the skin or in the nose of a healthy person, that can cause illnesses ranging from minor skin infections (such as pimples, boils, and cellulitis) and abscesses, to life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, Toxic shock syndrome (TSS), and septicemia. Each year some 500,000 patients in American hospitals contract a staphylococcal infection. It is a spherical bacterium. It is abbreviated to S. aureus or sometimes referred to as Staph aureus in medical literature, and should not be confused with the somewhat similarly named streptococci which are also medically important.
S. aureus is a Gram-positive coccus, which appears as grape-like clusters when viewed through a microscope and as large, round, golden-yellow colonies, often with β-hemolysis, when grown on blood agar plates. The golden appearance is the etymological root of the bacteria's name: aureus means "gold" in Latin.
S. aureus is catalase positive and thus able to convert hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to water and oxygen, which makes the catalase test useful to distinguish staphylococci from enterococci and streptococci. S. aureus can be differentiated from most other staphylococci by the coagulase test: S. aureus is coagulase-positive, while most other Staphylococcus species are coagulase-negative.
The species has been subdivided into two subspecies: S. aureus aureus and S. aureus anaerobius. The latter requires anaerobic conditions for growth, is an infrequent cause of infection, and is rarely encountered in the clinical laboratory.
may not be but more than likely something abnormal will be there as the body washes away the posions and white blood cells from fighting the infection
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