title: A simple and cost-effective cover-glass test for the differentiation between staphylococci and micrococci in clinical laboratory.
abstract: A cover-glass placed on a heavily inoculated culture plate clearly differentiates facultatively anaerobic staphylococci growing underneath the cover-glass after overnight incubation from nongrowing aerobic micrococci. Even if there are some exceptions, all medically significant staphylococci can grow in the test. Thus, the test provides a cost-effective and highly specific tool for separation of both genera which fundamentally differ in their pathogenicity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. oto.melter@lfmotol.cuni.cz
authors.forename: Oto
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Melter
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tkadlec
authors.forename: Ivo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sedláček
mesh_terms: D000332:Aerobiosis; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005898:Glass; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories; D008837:Micrococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology