Mammaliicoccus sciuri explained

Mammaliicoccus sciuri, previously Staphylococcus sciuri, is a Gram-positive, oxidase-positive, coagulase-negative member of the bacterial genus Mammaliicoccus consisting of clustered cocci. The type subspecies M. sciuri subsp. sciuri was originally known as Staphylococcus sciuri subsp. sciuri and used to categorize 35 strains shown to use cellobiose, galactose, sucrose, and glycerol.^[1]

In 2020, Madhaiyan et al. renamed the genus for M. sciuri from Staphylococcus to Mammaliicoccus.^[2]

Further reading

Nemeghaire. Stéphanie. Argudín. M. Ángeles. Feßler. Andrea T.. Hauschild. Tomasz. Schwarz. Stefan. Butaye. Patrick. The ecological importance of the Staphylococcus sciuri species group as a reservoir for resistance and virulence genes. Veterinary Microbiology. 16 July 2014. 171. 3–4. 342–356. 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.02.005. 24629775.

External links

• Type strain of Staphylococcus sciuri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Kloos. W. E.. Schliefer, K. H. . Smith R. F. . Characterization of Staphylococcus sciuri sp.nov. and its Subspecies. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 1 January 1976. 26. 1. 22–37. 10.1099/00207713-26-1-22. free.
2. Madhaiyan . M.. Wirth, J. S. . Saravanan V. S. . Phylogenomic analyses of the Staphylococcaceae family suggest the reclassification of five species within the genus Staphylococcus as heterotypic synonyms, the promotion of five subspecies to novel species, the taxonomic reassignment of five Staphylococcus species to Mammaliicoccus gen. nov., and the formal assignment of Nosocomiicoccus to the family Staphylococcaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 14 October 2020. 70. 11. 5926–5936 . 10.1099/ijsem.0.004498. 33052802 . free.