What is Macrococcus?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | domain = [[Bacteria]] | phylum = [[Firmicutes]] | classis = [[Bacilli]] | ordo = [[Bacillales]] | familia = [[Staphylococcaceae]] | genus = '''''Macrococcus''''' | genus_authority = Kloos ''et al''. 1998 | type_species = ''M. equipercicus'' | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''[[Macrococcus bovicus]]''<br /> ''[[Macrococcus brunensis]]''<br /> ''[[Macrococcus canis]]''<ref name=Macrococcus.canis>{{cite journal|last1=Gobeli Brawand|first1=S|last2=Cotting|first2=K|last3=Gómez-Sanz|first3=E|last4=Collaud|first4=A|last5=Thomann|first5=A|last6=Brodard|first6=I|last7=Rodriguez-Campos|first7=S|last8=Strauss|first8=C|last9=Perreten|first9=V|title=Macrococcus canis sp. nov., a skin bacterium associated with infections in dogs.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=March 2017|volume=67|issue=3|pages=621–626|doi=10.1099/ijsem.0.001673|pmid=27902286|doi-access=free}}</ref><br /> ''[[Macrococcus carouselicus]]''<br /> ''[[Macrococcus caseolyticus]]''<br /> ''[[Macrococcus equipercicus]]''<br /> ''[[Macrococcus hajekii]]''<br /> ''[[Macrococcus lamae]]'' }} '''''Macrococcus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[bacteria]]. The cells are [[Coccus|coccoid]] or [[spherical]]. ''Macrococcus'' is [[gram-positive]]. It is [[catalase]] and [[oxidase]]-positive.<ref>Paul Vos, George Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Noel R. Krieg, Wolfgang Ludwig, Fred A. Rainey, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman: ''Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.'' Volume 3. New York: Springer, 2001. page 354. {{ISBN|978-0387950419}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Gram-positive bacteria]]