This woman has mastitis. According to this article, staph species, like epidermidis and aureus are the most common pathogens cultured from mastitis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28747897
This makes intuitive sense because staph is a normal part of skin flora and could easily be dragged into the nipple by a suckling infant.
Bacteroides fragilis is a colon commensal
E. coli is a colon pathogen
Hemophilus influenzae normally lives in the nose and throat
Strep agalactiae lives in the female repro tract
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This woman has mastitis. According to this article, staph species, like epidermidis and aureus are the most common pathogens cultured from mastitis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28747897
This makes intuitive sense because staph is a normal part of skin flora and could easily be dragged into the nipple by a suckling infant.
Bacteroides fragilis is a colon commensal E. coli is a colon pathogen Hemophilus influenzae normally lives in the nose and throat Strep agalactiae lives in the female repro tract