Identification of coagulase‐negative staphylococci from farm animals

Abstract
The species identity of 661 strains of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from the skin and nares of cattles, pigs, poultry, goats and sheep was determined. They belonged to the novobiocin-sensitive species Staphylococcus hyicus, S. simulans, S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus and S. warneri or to the novobiocin-resistant species S. sciuri, S. lentus, S. xylosus, S. cohnii, S. saprophyticus and S. gallinarum; twenty-one strains remained unidentified. The staphylococcal flora of the farm animals studied differed markedly from that associated with man; several species which do not occur in man were isolated and novobiocin-resistant strains, which occur infrequently in man, were present in large numbers in animals. Two simplified schemes for the identification of staphylococci from farm animals and man are presented.

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