custard pastries, potato salad, canned meats (“meats and mayonnaise left out too long hanging from camel with nauseous woman”) Predisposing Factors for Infection: surgery/ wounds, foreign body – tampons, surgical packing, sutures – severe neutropenia, IV drug abuse, chronic granulomatous disease, Cystic Fibrosis Disease and Pathogenesis:
STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS “Golden Staff of Moses” Genus Features: Gram+ (“Moses wearing violet robe”), cocci in clusters, catalase+ (“cat”), small, yellow colonies on blood agar, Beta-hemolytic (“bright light with Beta”), Coagulase+ (“blood red sea parting”), Ferments mannitol on mannitol salt agar (“Tallman with yellow clothes”) Reservoir: Normal flora – nasal mucosa 25% of population are carriers (“Sphinx’s nose in the foreground”), and skin Transmission: hands, sneezing, surgical wounds, contaminated foods – i.e.
