Table 1.

Distribution of clinical relevance of the 204 isolates of coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) in the Antônio Pedro University Hospital.

CNS species a	Geral (%)	CR b			NR b
Total	Outpatient	NI c
S. epidermidis	70 ( 34)	17	2	15	53
S. warneri	35 ( 17)	9	3	6	26
S. haemolyticus	33 ( 16)	15	11	4	18
S. simulans	21 ( 10)	5	2	3	16
S. sciuri	15 ( 7)	4	3	1	11
S. saprophyticus	5 ( 3)	0	0	0	5
S. hominis	4 ( 2)	0	0	0	4
S. capitis	4 ( 2)	3	0	3	1
S. xylosus	3 ( 2)	1	1	0	2
S. auricularis	1 ( 0)	0	0	0	1
NDd	13 ( 6)	2	1	1	11
Total isolates	204 (100)	56	23	33	148

^aCNS species were identified by VITEK System Gram positive identification test (GPI) card;

^bClinically relevant (CR) and non-relevant (NR) CNS isolates were classified on the basis of the criteria described in Materials and Methods;

^cNosocomial infection (NI);

^dND CNS which species were not identified.