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Staphylococcus lugdunensis, in contrast to the other skin and mucus membrane-colonizing coagulase-negative staphylococci, has virulence factors that closely resemble those of Staphylococcus aureus and consequently causes similar aggressively destructive infections.

Staphylococcus lugdunensis: Not Your Father’s (or Mother’s) Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus