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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science| Species/Subspecies: | Staphylococcus warneri | ||||||||
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| Category: | In the normal flora | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: bunch of grape-like cocci (coccus means a grain or berry). Species epithet: from a human. Named after Arthur Warner, from whom this bacterium was first isolated. | ||||||||
| Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Bacilli Order Bacillales Family Staphylococcaceae Genus Staphylococcus |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC 27836 = CCUG 7325 = NCTC 11044. | ||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | Form medium sized colonies (3-5 mm in diameter), which are circular, glistening and opaque. The colonies are usually sticky and some strains produce a yellowish pigment. | ||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Non-motile cocci (spherical) with a diameter of 0.5-1.2 µm, whith appear singly, in pairs and in tetrads. | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G+ | ||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- | ||||||||
| Other Enzymes: | Koagulase - | ||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | D-glucose + lactose (-) maltose (+) L-rhamnose - sucrose + L-arabinose - cellobiose - D-mannitol (+) salicin - trehalose + glycerol + inulin ? raffinose - D-sorbitol - starch ? |
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| Disease: | May cause skin infections in individuals with a compromised immune system. It has been suggested that this bacterium can cause spontaneous abortion in cattle and humans. |
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| Hosts: | Belongs to the normal skin flora in animals and humans. | ||||||||
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny: | About 70 species and subspecies have been described within the genus Staphylococcus. | ||||||||
| Reference(s): | No. 146 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2023-03-08 |
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