Title: Who Are You—Staphylococcus saprophyticus? | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
Headings: Who Are You—
Staphylococcus saprophyticus?

Who Are You— Staphylococcus saprophyticus?
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Content: Colonization is more frequent during the summer and fall. Hovelius et al. [ 21] showed that women with S. saprophyticus colonization were more likely to have had a symptomatic UTI during the previous 12 months, to have recently had a menstrual period, and to have had sexual intercourse concurrent with vaginal candidiasis than were women without colonization. None of the women developed symptomatic UTI during the next 6 months. Further support for the existence of a rectal reservoir was the isolation of the same plasmid-identified clone from both urine and stool samples [ 22 ]. The remarkable selective susceptibility of young women to colonization by S. saprophyticus is further emphasized by a study by Schneider and Riley [ 11 ]. They isolated the microorganism from the genital tracts of 4.6% of women aged 13–40 years, but not from older women or men. These observations are in accord with numerous clinical reports [ 9–17] that UTI caused by S. saprophyticus is associated with recent sexual intercourse and occurs more often during late summer and fall [ 19 ]. The microorganisms colonize the human gastrointestinal tract, particularly during the gastroenteritis season in the summer and fall, and this is probably the reason for this seasonal variation in the incidence of UTI caused by S. saprophyticus. However, there was no seasonal variation in Western Australia and Israel [ 11, 16 ].