A simple test system for the separation of staphylococci from micrococci.

Journal of clinical microbiology ·Vol. 1 ·No. 3 ·1975-03-00 ·Pages 337-8

Schleifer KH, Kloos WE

Abstract

A simple test system for the separation of staphylococci from micrococci is described, which is based on the ability of staphylococci to produce acid aerobically from glycerol in the presence of 0.4 mug of erythromycin per ml and on their sensitivity to lysostaphin.

MeSH Terms

Acids/biosynthesis Aerobiosis Bacteriological Techniques Drug Resistance, Microbial Erythromycin/pharmacology Glycerol/metabolism Humans Lysostaphin/pharmacology Micrococcus/drug effects,isolation & purification,metabolism Muramidase/pharmacology Skin/microbiology Species Specificity Staphylococcus/drug effects,isolation & purification,metabolism

Chemicals

Acids Erythromycin Muramidase Lysostaphin Glycerol

Authors & Affiliations

2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Schleifer K H

Kloos W E

References (3)

3 references, click to expand

A classification of micrococci and staphylococci based on physiological and biochemical tests.
J Gen Microbiol. 1963 Mar;30:409-27 PMID: 13969076
Optical configuration of staphylococcal cell wall serine.
J Bacteriol. 1968 Oct;96(4):1452-3 PMID: 5686014
Use of shake cultures in a semisolid thioglycolate medium for differentiating staphylococci from micrococci.
Appl Microbiol. 1972 Feb;23(2):326-31 PMID: 4552889

Article Info

Journal

Journal of clinical microbiology

Abbr.

J Clin Microbiol

ISSN

0095-1137

DOI

10.1128/jcm.1.3.337-338.1975

Published

1975-03-00

Pages

337-8

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7505564

PMCID

PMC275080

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/jcm.1.3.337-338.1975 PMC Full Text View journal details

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