Mastitis
From IDWiki
Background
- Acute inflammation of the breast tissue
- Main causes appear to be either milk stasis (causing non-infectious inflammation) and infection
Microbiology
- Often non-infectious
- Staphylococus species are most common1
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Coagulase-negative staphylococci, particularly Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Streptococcus species, including Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus salivarius, and Streptococcus parasanguinis
- Others: Rothia, Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum and other corynebacteria, Enterococcus
References
- ^ María Marín, Rebeca Arroyo, Irene Espinosa-Martos, Leónides Fernández, Juan M. Rodríguez. Identification of Emerging Human Mastitis Pathogens by MALDI-TOF and Assessment of Their Antibiotic Resistance Patterns. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2017;8. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01258.
