Characters of coagulase-negative staphylococci and micrococci from cases of endocarditis

Kocuria kristinae infection associated with acute cholecystitis

“…The organism M. luteus has been described as the causative agent in meningitis [6], intracranial abscess [7], arthritis [8], pneumonia [9] and catheter-related sepsis in patients undergoing hemodialysis [10] or leukaemia treatment [11]. Other infections associated with Micrococcus and related organisms include continuous ambulatory dialysis peritonitis [12], endocarditis [13] and infection of cerebrospinal fluid shunts [14]. More recently, Micrococcus spp.…”

Species identification, antibiotic sensitivity and slime production of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from clinical specimens

“…Although several species of CNS inhabit the skin (Kloos & Musselwhite, 1975 (Eng et al 1982;Sewell et al 1982;Gruer, Bartlett & Ayliffe, 1984;Needham & Stempsey, 1984;Richardson, Marples & de Saxe, 1984). In vitro studies using the rat model of endocarditis and in vivo studies of phagocytic killing indicate the greater virulence of Staph.…”

“…epidermidis (Gemmell & Dawson, 1982;Marsik & Brake, 1982;Sewell et al 1982;Gruer, Bartlett & Ayliffe, 1984). Strains causing infection are frequently resistant to many anti-staphylococcal antibiotics (Gruer, Bartlett & Ayliffe, 1984; Richardson, Marples & de Saxe, 1984;Davies et al 1986;McAllister et al 1987).…”

Coagulase-negative staphylococci*

“…Although direct phage typing remains useful, typability is not as high as would be preferred in multiresistant strains, even in strains from endocarditis (Richardson et al, 1984), and reverse typing can be invaluable in discriminating between very similar strains. In the study of an epidemic of endocarditis infections (Marples et ul., 1978) the epidemic strain could be clearly distinguished from a similar normal flora strain by reverse typing, in which indicator strains for the carried phage and cross-spotting of induced supernates were both used (de Saxe and Notley, 1978).…”