Staphylococcus were earlier divided into two groups on the basis of their ability to clot blood plasma. The coagulase-positive staphylococci constitute the most pathogenic species S aureus.

Robert G. Workman, W. Edmund Farrar Jr. An agar-plate test based upon the decolorization of a starch-iodine complex by penicilloic acid was employed in the evaluation of 355 strains of Staphylococcus ...

G. LASSETER, A. CHARLETT, D. LEWIS, I. DONALD, R. HOWELL-JONES, C. A. M. McNULTY, Staphylococcus aureus carriage in care homes: identification of risk factors ...

How Superbug Staph Aureus Resists Our Natural Defenses Date: March 28, 2008 Source: University of Washington Summary: Researchers have uncovered how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, including ...

IN a previous paper1 we have reported that many strains of Staphylococcus aureus elaborate a diffusible extracellular lipolytic substance that produces visible lipid plaques on plasma agar, often ...

"Just my luck," he said. Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common germs we encounter each day. It is a normal (and usually harmless) germ on our skin and in our nose.

By late 1957 no less than 88% of Staph aureus cultures there were resistant to penicillin, 82% to tetra-cyclihe, and 70% were immune to attack by a combination of the two drugs.

More than 119,000 people were diagnosed with bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States in 2017, and almost 20,000 died – a significant slowing in the previously declining ...