Staphylococcus caprae
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| Staphylococcus caprae Devriese et al. 1983 |
Staphylococcus caprae is a Gram positive, spherical bacteria and a member of the genus Staphylococcus. S. caprae is coagulase-negative. It was originally isolated from goats ("caprae" means "of a goat") but members of this species have also been isolated from human samples.
S. caprae occurs as a commensal on human skin, but has also been implicated in infections of the bloodstream, urinary tract, bones and joints. Because S. caprae is difficult to identify definitively in the laboratory,[1] it is likely that it occurs more often than the medical literature suggests.
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- ^ Carretto E; Barbarini D; Couto I; De Vitis D; Marone P; Verhoef J; De Lencastre H; Brisse S. (2005). "Identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci other than Staphylococcus epidermidis by automated ribotyping.". Clin Microbiol Infect. 11 (3): 177– 184.
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