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Staphylococcus arlettae
Definition 1
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is catalase positive, oxidase and coagulase negative, ferments glucose, fructose, glycerol, sucrose, mannose, turanose, ribose, arabinose, lactose, trehalose, mannitol, and xylose but not cellobiose or xylitol. S. arlettae is a commensal organism in humans and animals and is not known to be a pathogen. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus arlettae. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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