Staphylococcus aureus is capable of fermenting mannitol (left side of left plate) while Staphylococcus epidermidis is not (right side of left plate). This is a differential medium. It tests an ...
It is shown that the common laboratory frog (Rang vernalis) is highly refractive to a strain of Staphylococcus aureus virulent to man. This immunity does not depend on the low body temperature of the ...