Staphylococcus aureusBacteremia — Consider the Source

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Abstract
When it enters the blood, Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most lethal human pathogens. In 1941, Skinner and Keefer reported that 82 percent of 122 patients treated at Boston City Hospital for S. aureus bacteremia died of their infection.1 From 1990 to 1995, according to the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 16 percent of hospital-acquired cases of bacteremia in the United States were due to S. aureus, a proportion second only to that involving coagulase-negative staphylococci.2 Because of the availability of effective antibacterial therapy, mortality from S. aureus bacteremia is . . .