First reported human isolation of Staphylococcus delphini.

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address:

Published: July 2019

The Staphylococcus intermedius group is a collection of coagulase-positive staphylococci composed of 5 members, including Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, a zoonotic pathogen often associated with exposure to dogs, and Staphylococcus delphini, which has not previously been recovered from humans. Here, we describe the first human case of S. delphini infection.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.01.014DOI Listing

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