Staphylococcus aureus is the most common causative agent of what diseases

Staphylococcus aureus, which can appear in various places of life, such as water, air, excreta, etc., belongs to the most common Gram-positive cocci and is the most common causative agent of infectious and toxigenic diseases. Infectious diseases: 1, local infections: such as skin surface boils and carbuncles, folliculitis, nail fungus, cellulitis and purulent wounds may be caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection; 2, visceral infections: Staphylococcus aureus is also the causative agent of bronchitis, pneumonia, pseudomembranous enteritis, endocarditis, septic thoracic osteomyelitis, meningitis, otitis media and other diseases; 3, systemic infections: Staphylococcus aureus also may cause sepsis, septicemia, toxemia and other systemic infectious diseases. Second, toxin diseases: 1, food poisoning: when Staphylococcus aureus contaminated food, under certain conditions can produce a large number of enterotoxins, the body can cause food poisoning by ingesting enterotoxins, patients can occur in different degrees of acute gastroenteritis; 2, scald-like skin syndrome: also known as exfoliative dermatitis, mainly caused by Staphylococcus aureus in the skin to produce epidermal relaxation toxins; 3, toxic shock syndrome: refers to the is a disease caused by the production of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 by Staphylococcus aureus, which stimulates T cells to produce a variety of hormones such as interleukin-1, causing dysfunction in several organs and systems in the organism.