Staphylococcus epidermidis

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Staphylococcus epidermidis

Staphylococcus epidermidis (syn. Staphylococcus albus Micrococcus epidermidis ) is a gram-positive, negative - Plasmakoagulase, saprophages bacterium colonizes the human skin and mucosa. Furthermore, it is found on foods and settled on surfaces of polymers ( see biofilm ).

Hazards

For people with normal immunological defense the bacteria means little risk. But in the hospital, in immunocompromised people, it can in filth, cause of serious diseases, nosocomial infections be. Often, it solves endocarditis after open heart surgery, infections after insertion of prostheses, Plastizitis at longer horizontal catheter or drainage from. In these infections ( by coagulase -negative staphylococci), the proportion of S. epidermidis is 70 to 80 percent, making it the most common trigger for foreign body induced infections.

Therapy

S. epidermidis has a wide spectrum in antimicrobial resistance. This applies especially to penicillin and methicillin ( MRSE, see multi-resistance ). The proportion of resistant strains is currently at 70%. Therefore, a treatment is particularly important for the antibiogram.

Swell

• Staphylococcaceae (Family)
• Staphylococcaceae
• Bacterium with sequenziertem genome