The application of numerical taxonomy in the classification of staphylococci from bovine milk
dc.contributor.author | Erasmus, J.A. | |
dc.contributor.editor | Bigalke, R.D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-30T06:25:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-30T06:25:57Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015 | |
dc.date.issued | 1983 | |
dc.description | The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format. | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | One-hundred-and-two isolates of staphylococci from bovine milk were each subjected to a battery of 19 different tests. With the application of numerical taxonomy these isolates could be classified into 1 genus and 3 different species. Although the majority of the coagulase negative organisms were grouped as 1 species, the biochemical differences within this group indicated that they should belong to at least 2 species. About 50% of these isolates could be designated Staphylococcus epidermidis. Possibly because of the small number of tests, a finer division into different species could not be made. The coagulase-positive organisms could be divided into 2 species, the smaller group of which consisted of 3 isolates only. If used as the only method for identification, the coagulase test produces false positive results at a rate of about 2,5% of cases and false negative results at a rate of about 1,7%. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Erasmus, JA 1983, 'The application of numerical taxonomy in the classification of staphylococci from bovine milk’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 291-293. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0330-2465 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50969 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Pretoria : Government Printer | en_ZA |
dc.rights | ©ARC - Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). ©University of Pretoria. Dept. of Library Services (digital). | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Veterinary medicine | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Staphylococci | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Cattle | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Milk | en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- South Africa | |
dc.title | The application of numerical taxonomy in the classification of staphylococci from bovine milk | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |