The Relevance of Bacterial Lytic Activity in the Taxonomy of the Micrococcaceae: Failure of its Production by Micrococcus and Planococcus as Opposed to Staphylococcus

Abstract
Several hundred clinical isolates of micrococci, planococci and staphylococci were tested for their lytic activities. The former 2 generally do not produce any detectable lytic activity. The taxonomic implications of this finding are discussed.