Macrococcus

Macrococcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Staphylococcaceae
Genus:	Macrococcus; Kloos et al. 1998
Type species
	M. equipercicus;
Species
	Macrococcus bovicus; Macrococcus brunensis; Macrococcus canis; Macrococcus carouselicus; Macrococcus caseolyticus; Macrococcus equipercicus; Macrococcus hajekii; Macrococcus lamae

Macrococcus is a genus of Gram-positive cocci belonging to the family Staphylococcaceae. The genus was created in 1998.^[2]

^ Gobeli Brawand, S; Cotting, K; Gómez-Sanz, E; Collaud, A; Thomann, A; Brodard, I; Rodriguez-Campos, S; Strauss, C; Perreten, V (March 2017). "Macrococcus canis sp. nov., a skin bacterium associated with infections in dogs". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (3): 621–626. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001673. PMID 27902286.
^ Kloos, W. E., D. N. Ballard, C. G. George, J. A. Webster, R. J. Hubner, W. Ludwig, K. H. Schleifer, F. Fiedler, and K. Schubert. 1998. Delimiting the genus Staphylococcus through description of Macrococcus caseolyticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Macrococcus equipercicus sp. nov., and Macrococcus bovicus sp. nov, and Macrococcus carouselicus sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48:859-877