Letters to the Editor Staphylococcus lugdunensis in Skin Infections: Pathogen or

We read the article of S. Böcher et al. (1) with interest. In this study, based on laboratory and retrospective clinical data, the authors report 491 skin infections, including 179 abscesses, and conclude that Staphylococcus lugdunensis is commonly in-volved in skin and soft tissue infections in the community. We recently had the opportunity to treat an S. lugdunensis skin infection located in the groin. At the first clinical assess-ment, the lesion was an erythematous painful mass and was considered a skin abscess. However, after surgical drainage, histological examination of the excised “abscess ” tissue showed that it was, in fact, an inflamed epidermal cyst and not a true primary abscess. We subsequently conducted a retrospective analysis of skin abscesses that were culture positive for S. lugdunensis in our institution. Seven skin sample cases were identified from Jan