Staph Infection Symptoms

Staph infection symptoms include various skin changes, symptoms related to infected internal organs, and symptoms relateed to staph blood poisoning – sepsis.

What is Staph?

Staph infection is caused by bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (shortly staph), and rarely by S. epidermidis or other staphylococcal species.

What is Staph Infection?

Staph infection is inflammation of the skin or internal organs, caused by staph bacteria or their toxins. Staph infection may be mild or life threatening, and may appear as:

• staph skin infection
• staph infection of mucous membranes (sinusitis, epiglottitis, vaginitis)
• staph gland infections (mastitis, parotitis) 
• staph food poisoning
• staph urinary infection in men
• staph bone infection (osteomielitis) and joint infection (arthritis)
• staph pneumonia
• bacterial endocarditis
• staph meningitis
• bacteremia, septicemia
• soft tissue gangrene and gas gangrene
• staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome

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Staph Skin Infection Pictures

Staph (pronounced ’staff’) skin infection may appear as

• a red bump or pus-filled blister (folliculitis)
• a boil (furuncle)
• infected cystic acne, hidradenitis suppurativa, pilonidal cyst
• a vesicle which may burst and crust over (impetigo)
• erythema (cellulitis)
• skin scalding (staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome)
• an infected wound or burn

Drainage of pus from lesions is common.

What Causes Staph Skin Infections?

Staph infections are mainly caused by bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, and rarely by S. epidermidis, or S. saprophyticus. In staph carriers, S. aureus, lives in the nose and on the skin, and less commonly in the mouth, mammary glands, urinary, intestinal, and upper respiratory tracts (1). Staphylococcal infections usually remain localized at the portal of entry. What is Staphylococcus aureus?

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