Routine Practices
Skin flora
Endocarditis
Osteomyelitis
Blood stream infections
Prosthetic joint infections
Skin and soft tissue infections
Coagulase negative but clinically behaves more like Staphylococcus aureus and is more virulent than other coagulase-negative Staphylococci.
Staphylococcus lugdunensis should be treated as a true pathogen in most scenarios.
Different from most coagulase negative Staphylococci as most CoNS are methicillin resistant and S. lugdunensis is generally beta-lactam susceptible.