Bacterium
staphylococcus warneri
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A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for catalase and urease and negative for oxidase, alkaline phosphatase and coagulase. It can ferment glucose, trehalose, sucrose, fructose, and maltose, but not xylitol, xylose, arabinose, mannose, lactose, turanose or cellobiose. S. warneri is a commensal organism on the skin of humans and animals and is a rare human pathogen that can cause a variety of opportunistic infections.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus warneri.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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