A simple and cost-effective cover-glass test for the differentiation between staphylococci and micrococci in clinical laboratory

Abstrakt

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.

Klíčová slova

• Cover-glass test
• Differentiation
• Staphylococci
• Micrococci
• sp-nov
• identification
• resistance
• animals
• skin