General information

• the following information is not yet verified
  Taxonomy
  Family: Staphylococcaceae
  
  Natural habitats
  Isolated from skin and urine samples
  
  Clinical significance
  Urinary tract infections especially in young women.
  
  Viulence factors, adherence to uroepithelial cells, production of a hemagglutin, production of extracellular slime

Gram stain

• the following information is not yet verified
  Gram positive cocci,
  
  0.6-1.4 µm
  
  that occur in irregular grape-like clusters and,
  
  less often, single and in pairs, tetrads, and in short chains.
  

Culture characteristics

• the following information is not yet verified
  

  INFECTION: low numbers of colony-forming units (less than 105 cfu/ml) are often present
  
  Facultative anaerobic
  
  Can be intesely yellow at first isolation
  
  Large; entire, very glossy, smooth, opaque, butyrous, convex, non hemolytic; usually white but colonies can be yellow or orange
  
  McConkey growth (not always)
  
  BBAØ growth

Characteristics

• Gram-positive
• cocci
• staphylococci
• growth both-aerobic-and-anaerobic
• catalase-positive
• urease-positive
• vancomycin-susceptible
• novobiocin-resistant

References