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: The more severe complications include acute pyelonephritis [ 6 ], septicemia [ 7 ], nephrolithiasis [ 5 ], and endocarditis [ 8 ]. The vast majority of infections occur in young sexually active women. Wallmark et al. [ 9] isolated S. saprophyticus from the urine of 173 of 787 (22%) consecutive female patients found to have bacteriuria. The highest rate of S. saprophyticus infection was 42.3%, among women aged 16–25 years included in the study. Gupta et al. [ 10] reported a prevalence of 8% among 665 young women with UTI. In a study conducted in Australia, S. saprophyticus was isolated from 15.2% of the women aged 13–40 years with UTI [ 11 ]. There are also several case reports of infections in young girls [ 12 ]. S. saprophyticus can also cause UTI in males of all ages;