{"title":"Infectious hazards of tatami mats.","authors":"Apolline Loïez, Frédéric Wallet, Fanny Vuotto, Claire Duployez","doi":"10.1684/abc.2023.1832","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 16-year old girl consulted for repeated axillary abscesses. The bacteriological culture yielded monomicrobial Staphylococcus aureus. Faced with these recurrent abscesses in an immunocompetent patient playing a close contact sport, the biologist suspected the strain to harbor a virulence factor explaining these recurrences.</p>","PeriodicalId":93870,"journal":{"name":"Annales de biologie clinique","volume":"81 4","pages":"448-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annales de biologie clinique","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1684/abc.2023.1832","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 16-year old girl consulted for repeated axillary abscesses. The bacteriological culture yielded monomicrobial Staphylococcus aureus. Faced with these recurrent abscesses in an immunocompetent patient playing a close contact sport, the biologist suspected the strain to harbor a virulence factor explaining these recurrences.