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Staphylococcus aureus and toxin-mediated disease
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A previously healthy man has a tender, fluctuant forearm lesion. Aspirated material contains many neutrophils and gram-positive cocci in irregular clusters. The isolate produces bubbles when exposed to hydrogen peroxide and forms a firm clot in the laboratory’s tube-coagulase test. Colonies show complete hemolysis on blood agar.