Bacterium
staphylococcus schleiferi
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A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for catalase, alkaline phosphatase and oxidase and negative for coagulase and urease. It can ferment mannose and fructose, but not sucrose, maltose, mannitol, ribose, xylose, turanose, arabinose, xylitol or cellobiose. S. schleiferi is a part of the normal skin flora of human and animals and is a pathogen that can cause external otitis, pyoderma, endocarditis and nosocomial infections in humans.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus schleiferi.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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