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. 2015 Mar;53(3):961-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02474-14. Epub 2014 Dec 10.

Improved detection of Staphylococcus intermedius group in a routine diagnostic laboratory

John Lee  1 , Aimee Murray  2 , Richard Bendall  3 , William Gaze  2 , Lihong Zhang  2 , Michiel Vos  2
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Improved detection of Staphylococcus intermedius group in a routine diagnostic laboratory

John Lee et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

The Staphylococcus intermedius group (SIG) includes zoonotic pathogens traditionally associated with dog bites. We describe a simple scheme for improved detection of SIG using routine laboratory methods, report its effect on isolation rates, and use sequencing to confirm that, apart from one atypical SIG strain, most isolates are Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.

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Phenotypic algorithm for the detection of SIG isolates.
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Maximum likelihood tree based on the concatenated hsp60 and sodA gene fragments (1,000 bootstrap replicates). The collapsed branch contains all S. pseudintermedius strains in this study. Selected SIG strains isolated from different hosts were used for reference, and S. aureus was used as an outgroup.
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