A simple and cost-effective cover-glass test for the differentiation between staphylococci and micrococci in clinical laboratory |
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Authors: | Melter Oto Tkadlec Jan Sedláček Ivo |
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Affiliation: | Department of Medical Microbiology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. oto.melter@lfmotol.cuni.cz |
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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. |
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