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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 1998, p. 2038-2042, Vol. 36, No. 7
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Distribution of Staphylococcus Species among Human Clinical Specimens and Emended Description of Staphylococcus caprae

Yoshiaki Kawamura,* Xiao-Gang Hou, Ferdousi Sultana, Kenji Hirose, Masaki Miyake, Sin-Ei Shu, and Takayuki Ezaki

Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa-machi, Gifu 500-8705, Japan

Received 26 September 1997/Returned for modification 8 February 1998/Accepted 24 April 1998

By DNA-DNA hybridization on microplates, we identified 1,230 strains of staphylococci from human clinical specimens and determined the distribution of species. The 10 Staphylococcus species isolated most often were S. epidermidis (31.3%), S. aureus (23.3%), S. haemolyticus (12.2%), S. caprae (10.7%), S. simulans (4.4%), S. hominis (4.0%), S. capitis (3.9%), S. saprophyticus (3.6%), S. warneri (2.2%), and S. lugdunensis (1.3%). From these results, we realized that S. caprae strains were widely distributed in human clinical specimens. The description in Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology indicates that no strains of S. caprae produce acid from fructose and mannitol, but all our S. caprae strains produced acid from fructose and mannitol. Consequently, many strains of S. caprae isolated from human clinical specimens have been misidentified as S. haemolyticus or S. hominis by conventional biochemical tests. In this paper, we propose an emended description of S. caprae.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa-machi, Gifu 500-8705, Japan. Phone: 81-58-267-2240. Fax: 81-58-267-0156. E-mail: kawamura{at}cc.gifu-u.ac.jp.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 1998, p. 2038-2042, Vol. 36, No. 7
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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