| Staphylococcus schweitzeri |
(c) Costin Stoica
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Bacillales, Family Staphylococcaceae, Genus Staphylococcus, Staphylococcus
schweitzeri Tong et al. 2015.
schweitzeri Tong et al. 2015.
Gram-positive cocci, 1 μm in diameter, forming clusters.
Colonies are round, 1.7 mm in diameter, convex, smooth, yellow and beta-haemolytic
on blood agar. Facultatively anaerobic. Can grow in 6.5% NaCl.
on blood agar. Facultatively anaerobic. Can grow in 6.5% NaCl.
Isolated from the nares of a red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) from Gabon, Africa. Susceptible to novobiocin. Resistant to
polymixin B.
polymixin B.
Undetermined. Isolated from the nares of Cercopithecus ascanius within 12 h after the death of the animal.
- Steven Y. C. Tong, Frieder Schaumburg, Matthew J. Ellington, Jukka Corander, Bruno Pichon, Fabian Leendertz, Stephen D.
Bentley, Julian Parkhill, Deborah C. Holt, Georg Peters and Philip M. Giffard, 2015. Novel staphylococcal species that form part of
a Staphylococcus aureus-related complex: the non-pigmented Staphylococcus argenteus sp. nov. and the non-human primate-
associated Staphylococcus schweitzeri sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 15-22.
Positive results for alkaline phosphatase, arginine dihydrolase, catalase, coagulase,
L-pyroglutamic acid arylamidase, acid production from: N-acetylglucosamine, maltose,
mannitol, mannose, methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside, ribose, sucrose and trehalose.
Negative results for alanine arylamidase, phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C, alpha-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, urease,
alanine-phenylalanine-proline arylamidase, L-aspartic acid arylamidase, alpha-mannosidase, beta-glucuronidase, L-leucine
arylamidase, proline arylamidase, alpha-galactosidase, tyrosine arylamidase, acid production from: amygdalin, alpha-cyclodextrin,
galactose, lactose, pullulan, raffinose, salicin, sorbitol and xylose.
L-pyroglutamic acid arylamidase, acid production from: N-acetylglucosamine, maltose,
mannitol, mannose, methyl beta-D-glucopyranoside, ribose, sucrose and trehalose.
Negative results for alanine arylamidase, phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C, alpha-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, urease,
alanine-phenylalanine-proline arylamidase, L-aspartic acid arylamidase, alpha-mannosidase, beta-glucuronidase, L-leucine
arylamidase, proline arylamidase, alpha-galactosidase, tyrosine arylamidase, acid production from: amygdalin, alpha-cyclodextrin,
galactose, lactose, pullulan, raffinose, salicin, sorbitol and xylose.
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