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Content: Staphylococcus saprophyticus as a common cause of urinary tract infections
Until the last decade, coagulase-negative staphylococci occurring in urine specimens were usually regarded as a contaminant. In the early 1970s, i.e., more than ten years after the original demonstration of Staphylococcus saprophyticus in urine specimens, this species became recognized as a frequent …
Until the last decade, coagulase-negative staphylococci occurring in urine specimens were usually regarded as a contaminant. In the early 1970s, i.e., more than ten years after the original demonstration of Staphylococcus saprophyticus in urine specimens, this species became recognized as a frequent …
Staphylococcus saprophyticus as a common cause of urinary tract infections


    
  
Rev Infect Dis. May-Jun 1984;6(3):328-37.doi: 10.1093/clinids/6.3.328. Authors
          
B Hovelius, P A Mårdh
PMID: 6377440
    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/6.3.328
    
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Until the last decade, coagulase-negative staphylococci occurring in urine specimens were usually regarded as a contaminant. In the early 1970s, i.e., more than ten years after the original demonstration of Staphylococcus saprophyticus in urine specimens, this species became recognized as a frequent cause of urinary tract infections (UTI). In young women, S. saprophyticus is, after Escherichia coli, the second-most-frequent causative agent of acute UTI.