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Distribution of Staphylococcus species among human clinical specimens and emended description of Staphylococcus caprae.

Journal of clinical microbiology ·Vol. 36 ·No. 7 ·1998-07-00 ·Pages 2038-42

Kawamura Y, Hou XG, Sultana F, Hirose K, Miyake M, Shu SE, Ezaki T

Abstract

By DNA-DNA hybridization on microplates, we identified 1,230 strains of staphylococci from human clinical specimens and determined the distribution of species. The 10 Staphylococcus species isolated most often were S. epidermidis (31.3%), S. aureus (23.3%), S. haemolyticus (12.2%), S. caprae (10.7%), S. simulans (4.4%), S. hominis (4.0%), S. capitis (3.9%), S. saprophyticus (3.6%), S. warneri (2.2%), and S. lugdunensis (1.3%). From these results, we realized that S. caprae strains were widely distributed in human clinical specimens. The description in Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology indicates that no strains of S. caprae produce acid from fructose and mannitol, but all our S. caprae strains produced acid from fructose and mannitol. Consequently, many strains of S. caprae isolated from human clinical specimens have been misidentified as S. haemolyticus or S. hominis by conventional biochemical tests. In this paper, we propose an emended description of S. caprae.

MeSH Terms
Bacterial Typing Techniques DNA, Bacterial/analysis Hospitals Humans Japan/epidemiology Nucleic Acid Hybridization Reagent Kits, Diagnostic Species Specificity Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology,microbiology Staphylococcus/classification,genetics,isolation & purification
Chemicals
DNA, Bacterial Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
Authors & Affiliations
7 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Kawamura Y
Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan. kawamura@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp
Hou X G
Sultana F
Hirose K
Miyake M
Shu S E
Ezaki T
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Abbr.
J Clin Microbiol
ISSN
0095-1137
DOI
10.1128/JCM.36.7.2038-2042.1998
Email
kawamura@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp
Published
1998-07-00
Pages
2038-42
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505564
PMCID
PMC104974
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/JCM.36.7.2038-2042.1998 PMC Full Text View journal details
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