Hi, I'm S. epidermidis.
I'm a coagulase negative, Gram Positive coccus.
I'm found in normal human skin
When I infect skin I make it red and oozy.
I infect prosthetics, pins, plates, screws and anything in your body made of metal.
I cause pain, redness, swelling and tissue erosion which loosens the prosthesis.
I get into your head through shunts into your brain and give you meningitis.
I make a 'slime' layer that is very hard to get off, so you have to remove all the metal.
And more than a few times, also lives at intravenous catheters, causing intrahospitalarial infections :(
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