Staphylococcus lugdunensis

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NCI: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus lugdunensis.,NCI: A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for catalase and alkaline phosphatase and negative for oxidase and coagulase. It can ferment glucose, fructose, mannose, maltose, trehalose, sucrose and glycerol but not mannitol, ribose, arabinose, cellobiose, xylose or xylitol. S. lugdunesis is part of the normal human skin flora and a rare opportunistic pathogen in humans.,MSH: A species of gram-positive bacteria in the family STAPHYLOCOCCACEAE. It is responsible for skin and soft-tissue infections among others, and is part of the normal human skin flora.

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