Staphylococcus agnetis

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Staphylococcus

| species = agnetis

| authority = Taponen et al. 2012{{cite journal|last1=Taponen|first1=S.|last2=Supre|first2=K.|last3=Piessens|first3=V.|last4=Van Coillie|first4=E.|last5=De Vliegher|first5=S.|last6=Koort|first6=J. M. K.|title=Staphylococcus agnetis sp. nov., a coagulase-variable species from bovine subclinical and mild clinical mastitis|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=18 February 2011|volume=62|issue=1|pages=61–65|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.028365-0|pmid=21335502|doi-access=free}}

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Staphylococcus agnetis is a Gram positive, coagulase-variable member of the bacterial genus Staphylococcus. Strains of this species were originally isolated from the milk and teats of cows with mastitis. This species is not known to infect humans.{{cite journal|last1=Savini|first1=Vincenzo|last2=Passeri|first2=Cecilia|last3=Mancini|first3=Giorgia|last4=Iuliani|first4=Ornella|last5=Marrollo|first5=Roberta|last6=Argentieri|first6=Angela Valentina|last7=Fazii|first7=Paolo|last8=D'Antonio|first8=Domenico|last9=Carretto|first9=Edoardo|title=Coagulase-positive staphylococci: my pet's two faces|journal=Research in Microbiology|date=June 2013|volume=164|issue=5|pages=371–374|doi=10.1016/j.resmic.2013.02.004|pmid=23481095|doi-access=free}}

The genome of S. agnetis isolate CBMRN 20813338 has been sequenced and was found to be 2.4 megabases long with a GC content of 35.79%.{{cite journal|last1=Calcutt|first1=M. J.|last2=Foecking|first2=M. F.|last3=Fry|first3=P. R.|last4=Hsieh|first4=H.-Y.|last5=Perry|first5=J.|last6=Stewart|first6=G. C.|last7=Scholl|first7=D. T.|last8=Messier|first8=S.|last9=Middleton|first9=J. R.|title=Draft Genome Sequence of Bovine Mastitis Isolate Staphylococcus agnetis CBMRN 20813338|journal=Genome Announcements|date=4 September 2014|volume=2|issue=5|pages=e00883-14–e00883-14|doi=10.1128/genomeA.00883-14|pmid=25189590|pmc=4155595}}