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Firmicutes => Bacilli => Bacillales => Staphylococcaceae => Staphylococcus => Staphylococcus lentus Schleifer et al. 1983.
Basonym: Staphylococcus sciuri subsp. lentus Kloos et al. 1976.
Basonym: Staphylococcus sciuri subsp. lentus Kloos et al. 1976.
Gram positive cocci, non-motile, non-sporing, 0.7–1.2 μm in diameter; occur singly or
in pairs and tetrads.
in pairs and tetrads.
Opaque, S-type, grayish white, white, or cream colonies. Some strains are mucoid.
Colony diameter 0.5–5 mm on P agar or 2–7 mm on tryptic soy agar. Optimum growth
temperature 25–35 °C; no growth at 15 or 45°C. Facultative anaerobes; anaerobic
growth is weak and does not grow anaerobically in thioglycolate medium. Growth is
slow in 10% NaCl medium and growth poor in 15% NaCl.
Colony diameter 0.5–5 mm on P agar or 2–7 mm on tryptic soy agar. Optimum growth
temperature 25–35 °C; no growth at 15 or 45°C. Facultative anaerobes; anaerobic
growth is weak and does not grow anaerobically in thioglycolate medium. Growth is
slow in 10% NaCl medium and growth poor in 15% NaCl.
Isolated from sheep, goat udder, raw milk , urine samples (human) also from intestinal tract of house fly larvae (Musca domestica L.).
Resistant to novobiocin.
Resistant to novobiocin.
Associated with goat mastitis. Opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients.
- Holt J.G., Krieg N.R., Sneath P.H.A., Staley J.T., Wiliams S.T., 1994. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Ninth
Edition, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. Group 17, Gram-Positive Cocci, 527-558. - Schleifer K.H., Geyer U., Kilpper-Balz R. & Devriese L.A.: Elevation of Staphylococcus sciuri subsp. lentus (Kloos et al.) to
species status: Staphylococcus lentus (Kloos et al.) comb. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol., 1983, 4, 382-387. - Srdjan Stepanovic, Ivana Dakic, Donald Morrison, Tomasz Hauschild, Petr Jezek, Petr Petrás, An Martel, Dragana Vukovic,
Adebayo Shittu, and Luc A. Devriese: Identification and Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Members of the Staphylococcus
sciuri Group. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2005, p. 956-958, Vol. 43, No. 2. - Karachalios, George; Michelis, Fotios; Kanakis, Konstantinos; Karachaliou, Iris; Koutri, Rozetta; Zacharof, Antonios: Splenic
abscess due to Staphylococcus lentus: A rare entity. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 38, Number 8,
August 2006 , pp. 708-710(3). - L. Zurek, C. Schal & D. W. Watson: Diversity & Contribution of the Intestinal Bacterial Community to the Development of Musca
domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) Larvae. J. Med. Entomol. 37(6): 924Ð928 (2000). - Karl-Heinz Schleifer and Julia A. Bell, 2009. Family VIII. Staphylococcaceae fam. nov.. In: (Eds.) P.D. Vos, G. Garrity, D. Jones,
N.R. Krieg, W. Ludwig, F.A. Rainey, K.-H. Schleifer, W.B. Whitman. Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume 3: The
Firmicutes, Springer, 392-426.
Positive results for nitrate reduction, oxidase, deoxyribonuclease, benzidine test,
caseinase, catalase, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, beta-glucosidase, nuclease, acid
production from: trehalose, mannitol, raffinose, sucrose, cellobiose, ribose, mannose,
glucose, glycerol & fructose.
Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, urease, coagulase-rabbit plasma, clumping factor, beta-glucuronidase,
beta-galactosidase, acetoin production, arginine dihydrolase, acid production from: adonitol, D-arabitol, dulcitol, meso-erythritol,
D-erythrose, xylitol, xylose, melezitose, D-lyxose & turanose.
Variable results for staphylokinase production, acid production from: lactose, arabinose, fucose, salicin, sorbitol & galactose.
caseinase, catalase, esculin hydrolysis, gelatinase, beta-glucosidase, nuclease, acid
production from: trehalose, mannitol, raffinose, sucrose, cellobiose, ribose, mannose,
glucose, glycerol & fructose.
Negative results for alkaline phosphatase, urease, coagulase-rabbit plasma, clumping factor, beta-glucuronidase,
beta-galactosidase, acetoin production, arginine dihydrolase, acid production from: adonitol, D-arabitol, dulcitol, meso-erythritol,
D-erythrose, xylitol, xylose, melezitose, D-lyxose & turanose.
Variable results for staphylokinase production, acid production from: lactose, arabinose, fucose, salicin, sorbitol & galactose.
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