STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPRAE

'''Staphylococcus caprae''' is a Gram positive, spherical bacteria and a member of the genus ''Staphylococcus''. ''S. caprae'' is coagulase-negative. It was originally isolated from goats ("''caprae''" means "of a goat") but members of this species have also been isolated from human samples.
''S. caprae'' occurs as a commensal on human skin, but has also been implicated in infections of the bloodstream, urinary tract, bones and joints. Because ''S. caprae'' is difficult to identify definitively in the laboratory,^[1] it is likely that it occurs more often than the medical literature suggests.

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1. Identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci other than ''Staphylococcus epidermidis'' by automated ribotyping., Carretto E; Barbarini D; Couto I; De Vitis D; Marone P; Verhoef J; De Lencastre H; Brisse S., , , Clin Microbiol Infect., 2005