Early-onset sepsis with Staphylococcus auricularis in an extremely low-birth weight infant - an uncommon pathogen.

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are often dismissed as a contaminant of blood cultures and are rarely considered as an etiology of perinatally acquired infections. We describe a case of early-onset sepsis with Staphylococcus auricularis in an extremely low-birth weight infant.