INTRODUCTION: Staphylococcus pettenkoferi was originally isolated and described by Tr?lzsch et al (2002). In this study, we characterized two isolates of this newly described species.METHODS: Blood cultures were initially processed using the BacT/ALERT(R) device, and the isolates were initially characterized using the Vitek2 identification system.RESULTS: The initial characterization revealed slow-growing Gram-positive cocci that formed opaque colonies on sheep blood agar. Other phenotypic/genotypic tests were performed.CONCLUSIONS: We would like to emphasize that this new staphylococcus species is phenotypically similar to other CoNS, especially S. auricularis. This could potentially lead to misidentification of these uncommon species.
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