Staphylococcus stepanovicii

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| species = stepanovicii

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Staphylococcus stepanovicii is a Gram-positive, coagulase-negative member of the bacterial genus Staphylococcus consisting of single, paired, and clustered cocci. The species is novobiocin-resistant and oxidase-positive. It was named in honor of Serbian microbiologist Srdjan Stepanović.{{cite journal|last=Hauschild|first=Tomasz |author2=Stepanović, Srdjan |author3=Zakrzewska-Czerwińska, Jolanta|title=Staphylococcus stepanovicii sp. nov., a novel novobiocin-resistant oxidase-positive staphylococcal species isolated from wild small mammals|journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology|date=June 2010|volume=33|issue=4|pages=183–187|doi=10.1016/j.syapm.2010.03.004|pmid=20418037 }}

Staphylococcus stepanovicii has been isolated from the skin of small mammals in the wild.{{cite journal|last=Hauschild|first=T|author2=Sliżewski, P |author3=Masiewicz, P |title=Species distribution of staphylococci from small wild mammals.|journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology|date=December 2010|volume=33|issue=8|pages=457–60|pmid=20970941|doi=10.1016/j.syapm.2010.08.007}}