Staphylococcus aureus infections in the elderly tend to occur primarily on the skin.

There is a relative absence of infection of the lung and the urinary tract and, if these types of infections do occur, they tend to harbinger some sort of underlying systemic Staphylococcal infection as opposed to just a superficial infection involving the skin or a wound or a diabetic ulcer.

Staphylococcal bacteremia in the elderly is also a relatively rare infection except in situations where patients have an IV catheter in place.

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