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Staphylococcus haemolyticus
Definition 1
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for catalase and negative for coagulase, alkaline phosphatase, oxidase and urease. It can ferment glucose, glycerol sucrose, maltose, and trehalose, but not mannose, rhamnose, cellobiose, xylose, arabinose, ribose, or xylitol. S. haemolyticus is a commensal human skin organism and an opportunistic pathogen that can cause meningitis, skin or soft tissue infections, prosthetic joint infections, and bacteremia in humans. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus haemolyticus. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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