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Wow Medicine on Instagram: "🦠 How Staphylococcus aureus causes disease 👇 Meet Staph aureus — a Gram-positive coccus that lives harmlessly on the skin… until it doesn’t ⚠️ Here’s how this golden troublemaker wreaks havoc 👇 1️⃣ Skin infections: It slips through breaks in the skin → causes boils, abscesses, cellulitis, and impetigo. 🧪 Virulence factors like coagulase help it form clots and wall itself off from immune cells. 2️⃣ Endocarditis: If it enters the bloodstream, it can stick to heart v