Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1991 Jan;35(1):174-6

Identification of a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus caprae from a human clinical specimen.

Kanda K, Suzuki E, Hiramatsu K, Oguri T, Miura H, Ezaki T, Yokota T

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.

The analysis of gel banding patterns of penicillin-binding proteins was used to identify two clinical isolates of a coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species as Staphylococcus caprae, a species originally isolated from goat's milk. One of the isolates was further shown to carry mecA, the structural gene for methicillin resistance.