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staphylococcus
A type of bacterium responsible for numerous skin, soft tissue, and bone infections, less often causing sepsis, a cavitating pneumonia , bacterial endocarditis, and enterocolitis. Boils, carbuncles, impetigo, and osteomyelitis are commonly due to staphylococci. Treatment usually requires drainage of pus from abscesses, and antibiotics.
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