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Phylum Firmicutes, Class Bacilli, Order Bacillales, Family Staphylococcaceae, Genus Staphylococcus, Staphylococcus gallinarum
Devriese et al. 1983.
Devriese et al. 1983.
Gram-positive cocci, nonmotile, nonsporing.
Small, flat, yellowish or nonpigmented, S-type colonies. Weak hemolysis. Colony
diameter 5-10 mm after 2 days on tryptone soy agar or 4-7 mm in diameter after 2
days on BHI agar.
Facultatively anaerobic, grow better aerobically. Temperature 37 ºC, range 25-42 ºC.
diameter 5-10 mm after 2 days on tryptone soy agar or 4-7 mm in diameter after 2
days on BHI agar.
Facultatively anaerobic, grow better aerobically. Temperature 37 ºC, range 25-42 ºC.
Isolated from the skin of poultry, from caecum of Japanese quails; from silkworm larvae; also from Komodo dragon’s saliva (1
isolate), cat skin (1 isolate) and some human clinical samples. Resistant to Novobiocin.
isolate), cat skin (1 isolate) and some human clinical samples. Resistant to Novobiocin.
Is a part of normal skin flora of poultry. Produce a lanthionine containing antibiotic ‘gallidermin’ .
Cause hemolymph septicemia by its cytotoxic effect on the hemocytes of silkworm Bombyx mori (Flacherie symptom).
Cause hemolymph septicemia by its cytotoxic effect on the hemocytes of silkworm Bombyx mori (Flacherie symptom).
- 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. - Devriese L.A., Poutrel B., Kilpper-Balz R. & Schleifer K.H.: Staphylococcus gallinarum and Staphylococcus caprae, two new species
from animals. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1983, 33, 480-486. - Lauková A; Marounek M; Bod'a K: Characteristics of enterococci and staphylococci isolated from the crop and caecum of Japanese
quails exposed to microgravity conditions. Institute of Animal Physiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic. - Joel M. Montgomery, Don Gillespie, Putra Sastrawan, Terry M. Fredeking, & George L. Steward: Aerobic salivary bacteria in wild and
captive Komodo dragons. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 38(3), 2002, pp. 545–551 - R. Kellner, et al: Gallidermin: a new lanthionine-containing polypeptide antibiotic. Eur. J. Biochem. 177, 53 (1988).
- 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, urease, catalase, beta-
glucosidase, esculin hydrolysis, acid production from amygdalin, L-arabinose, arbutin,
mannose, trehalose, mannitol, raffinose, xylose, sucrose, fructose, fucose (weak),
cellobiose, salicin, beta-gentibiose, galactose & melezitose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, oxidase, acetoin production, hyaluronidase, coagulase-rabbit plasma, clumping factor,
fibrinolysin, deoxyribonuclease, heat-stable nuclease, beta-glucuronidase, beta-galactosidase, acid production from rhamnose
Variable results for lactose & xylitol acid production.
glucosidase, esculin hydrolysis, acid production from amygdalin, L-arabinose, arbutin,
mannose, trehalose, mannitol, raffinose, xylose, sucrose, fructose, fucose (weak),
cellobiose, salicin, beta-gentibiose, galactose & melezitose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, oxidase, acetoin production, hyaluronidase, coagulase-rabbit plasma, clumping factor,
fibrinolysin, deoxyribonuclease, heat-stable nuclease, beta-glucuronidase, beta-galactosidase, acid production from rhamnose
Variable results for lactose & xylitol acid production.
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