Reclassification of Staphylococcus jettensisas Staphylococcus petrasii subsp jettensis subsp nov and emended description of Staphylococcus petrasii. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
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Seven coagulase-negative, oxidase-negative and novobiocin-susceptible staphylococci assigned tentatively as Staphylococcus petrasii were investigated in this study in order to elucidate their taxonomic position. All strains were initially shown to form a genetically homogeneous group separated from remaining species of the genus Staphylococcus by using a repetitive sequence-based PCR fingerprinting with the (GTG)5 primer. Phylogenetic ...