TABLE 1.
Documented PYR activities of S. aureus and members of the S. intermedius group represented in clinical reference texts
| Clinical reference text | Documented PYR activitya |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. aureus | S. delphini | S. intermedius | S. pseudintermedius | |
| Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 11th ed (7) | NEG | Not determined | POS | POS |
| Koneman's Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7th ed (8) | NEG | Not available | POS | POS |
| Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, 13th ed (9) | NEG | Excluded | POS | POS |
| Clinical Veterinary Microbiology, 2nd ed (10) | Excluded from identification table | |||
a
PYR, pyrrolidonyl arylamidase; NEG, negative; POS, positive.