title: Identification of Staphylococcus and Micrococcus species with the STAPHYtest system.
abstract: A collection of 216 well-characterized strains of Staphylococcus, Micrococcus and Stomatococcus was examined by a commercially available STAPHYtest system (Lachema, Brno, Czechoslovakia). The results of STAPHYtest agreed with those of conventional tests. The STAPHYtest permitted a clear-cut separation of Staphylococcus from Micrococcus and Stomatococcus strains and correctly identified 104 of 145 (72%) Staphylococcus strains after 24 h of incubation. However, it allowed the identification only of 19 of 29 validly published Staphylococcus species. The STAPHYtest proved to be a simple and rapid system for the separation of staphylococci from micrococci and for the identification of most frequent clinically significant staphylococci.
authors.affiliation: Czechoslovak Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sedlácek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kocur
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008837:Micrococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*