The expression of most Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors is controlled by the agr locus, which encodes a two-component signaling pathway whose activating ligand is an agr-encoded autoinducing pe
*Pathogens found in co-infections: E. coli+C. freundii; E. coli+K. pneumoniae; S. aureus+K. pneumoniae; S. aureus+Salmonella spp.; S. aureus+S. pneumoniae. †Isolated in two blood cultures from the sam