The bacteria are transported on the hands of healthcare workers, who may pick them up from a seemingly healthy patient carrying a benign or commensal strain of S. aureus, and then pass it on to the next patient being treated.
As bacterias son transportadas nas mans dos traballadores sanitarios, que poden collelas de pacientes aparentemente sans que portan unha cepa comensal benigna de S. aureus, e despois pasalas ao seguinte paciente que traten.