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A case of carbuncle caused by a catalase-negative strain of staphylococcus aureus
1Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
A gram-positive coagulase-positive coccus was isolated from purulent drainage from the carbuncle of a pediatric patient. It shows characteristics typical of Staphylococcus aureus with the exception that catalase activity could not be found.