Abstract
A 16-year old girl consulted for repeated axillary abscesses. The bacteriological culture yielded monomicrobial Staphylococcus aureus. Faced with these recurrent abscesses in an immunocompetent patient playing a close contact sport, the biologist suspected the strain to harbor a virulence factor explaining these recurrences.
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