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Firmicutes => Bacilli => Bacillales => Staphylococcaceae => Staphylococcus => Staphylococcus muscae Hajek et al. 1992.
Gram positive cocci, 0.4–1.1μm in diameter; non-motile, non-sporing, occuring singly
or forming clumps.
or forming clumps.
Gray-white, opaque, convex, low, with raised centres, somewhat glistening, and
butyrous; S-type colonie,s 5–6 mm in diameter after 5 days incubation at 37°C on P
agar. Hemolytic on sheep blood agar. Facultatively anaerobic, growth temperature 35-
37 ºC . No growth at 10 or 45 °C. Grow in 10% NaCl medium but not in 15% NaCl.
Other growth media: Trypticase Soy Agar ± 5% sheep blood, Trypticase Soy Broth.
butyrous; S-type colonie,s 5–6 mm in diameter after 5 days incubation at 37°C on P
agar. Hemolytic on sheep blood agar. Facultatively anaerobic, growth temperature 35-
37 ºC . No growth at 10 or 45 °C. Grow in 10% NaCl medium but not in 15% NaCl.
Other growth media: Trypticase Soy Agar ± 5% sheep blood, Trypticase Soy Broth.
Isolated from the house fly (Musca domestica) & the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans). Sensible to novobiocin. Resistant to lysozyme
and bacitracin.
and bacitracin.
Unknown. Wound infections possible.
- Hajek V., Ludwig W., Schleifer K.H., Springer N., Zitzelsberger W., Kroppenstedt R.M. & Kocur M.: Staphylococcus muscae, a
new species isolated from flies. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1992, 42, 97-101. - Shope R.: Bacteriophage isolated from the common house fly (Musca domestica). Journal of Experimental Medicine
45/6/1037-1044. - Stepan J., Pantucek R., Doskar J.: Molecular Diagnostics of Clinically Important Staphylococci. Folia Microbiol. 49 (4), 353-
386 (2004). - 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, alkaline phosphatase, heat-stable nuclease,
lecithinase, hydrolysis of Tween 20, 40, and 80, acid production from fructose, glucose,
glycerol, trehalose, turanose, xylose & sucrose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, urease, oxidase, acetoin production (Voges-Proskauer reaction), coagulase, ornithine
decarboxylase, beta-galactosdase, fibrinolysin, protease, protein A, acid production from: arabinose, cellobiose, salicin, fucose,
galactose, melezitose, mannose, maltose, lactose, mannitol, sorbose, tagatose, dulcitol, inositol, ribose, xylitol & raffinose.
lecithinase, hydrolysis of Tween 20, 40, and 80, acid production from fructose, glucose,
glycerol, trehalose, turanose, xylose & sucrose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, urease, oxidase, acetoin production (Voges-Proskauer reaction), coagulase, ornithine
decarboxylase, beta-galactosdase, fibrinolysin, protease, protein A, acid production from: arabinose, cellobiose, salicin, fucose,
galactose, melezitose, mannose, maltose, lactose, mannitol, sorbose, tagatose, dulcitol, inositol, ribose, xylitol & raffinose.
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