Publication Date
4-25-2023
Document Type
Poster
Department
science
Faculty Mentor
DR. TAYLOR MACH AND DR. MANDY BROSNAHAN
Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacteria that may lead to sickness and in some extreme cases death. It is a cocci shaped gram positive bacteria that is found in many places including nose, ground, water, and eben in the air. Staphylococcus is encoded with many different types of genes. This list includes Selx, alpha, nuc, SEA, SEB, SEA, and FemA. Staphylococcus is known for it’s infection rate. It is known to cause the most amount infections and diseases in humans.