A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for catalase, urease, and alkaline phosphatase and negative for coagulase and oxidase. It can ferment glucose, fructose, maltose, sucrose, glycerol, mannose, lactose, and turanose but not arabinose, mannitol, xylose, cellobiose, xylitol, rhamnose or trehalose. S. epidermidis is a commensal human skin organism and can be a human pathogen causing sepsis or endocarditis in patients with implants or immunocompromised individuals.

A species of STAPHYLOCOCCUS that is a spherical, non-motile, gram-positive, chemoorganotrophic, facultative anaerobe. Mainly found on the skin and mucous membrane of warm-blooded animals, it can be primary pathogen or secondary invader.

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Species of Staphylococcus that is a spherical, nonmotile, gram positive, chemoorganotrophic, facultative anaerobe; mainly found on the skin and mucous membrane of warm blooded animals, it can be primary pathogen or secondary invader.