Micrococcus luteus is a Gram-positive, to Gram-variable, nonmotile, spherical, saprotrophic bacterium that belongs to the family Micrococcaceae. It is urease and catalase positive. An obligate aerobe, M. luteus is found in soil, dust, water and air, and as part of the normal flora of the mammalian skin. The bacterium also colonizes the human mouth...
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(from the article `Micrococcus`) ...denitrificans), in marine waters (M. colpogenes), and on the skin or in skin glands or skin-gland secretions of vertebrates (M. flavus). Those ...
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A species of gram-positive, spherical bacteria whose organisms occur in tetrads and in irregular clusters of tetrads. The primary habitat is mammalian skin. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a saphrophytic species found in milk and dairy products and on dust particles, it has caused meningitis in humans; it is the type species of the genus Micrococcus.
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