Staphylococcus equorum

Novakova D, Sedlacek I, Pantucek R, Stetina V, Svec P, Petras P (2006b) Staphylococcus equorum and Staphylococcus succinus isolated from human clinical specimens. J Med Microbiol 55 523-528... 

In addition to the species listed in Table 15.2, other species were included in the 2012 inventory of microbial species with technological beneficial role in fermented food products (Bourdichon et al., 2012). Of these, Staphylococcus equorum subsp. equorum has potential as a starter culture for low-acid fermented meats such as Swiss-, French- and Mediterranean-type sausages (Marty, Buchs, Eugster-Meier, Lacroix, Meile, 2012). 

Ribotyping with other molecular techniques demonstrated the occnrrence of several non-human staphylococci, S. nepalensis, S. succinus and S. equorum, in clinical material (Novakova et al. 2006a, b) and for S. nepalensis and S. succinus strains there has been the first incidence in human clinical sources, probably as a rare pathogens. Besides, ribotyping method was of cardinal importance for reclassification of Staphylococcus pulvereri as S. vituiinus (Svec et al. 2004) based on strains from human clinical material as well. 

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