Download or read book Staphylococcus aureus Infection and Disease written by Allen Honeyman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staphylococcus aureus is now acknowledged as being the most important bacterial pathogen of humans. It usually produces localized disease but can be rapidly invasive, spreading through the tissues, invading bone, and seeding the bloodstream to produce a fulminant picture of septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and rapid death. Moreover, most strains of staph infections are becoming resistant to most antibiotics, thus posing a significant problem for hospitals and health care facilities. This book, a volume in the Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis series, presents chapters by the major researchers in the field.