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

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Microbiological Methods
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2012.03.006
Field Microbiology, virology
Keywords Cover-glass test; Differentiation; Staphylococci; Micrococci
Description 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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