Identification of Staphylococcus aureus

1986 Casewell and Hill
Based on the methods of Cowan (1979), colonies with consistent morphology were idenitified as S. aureus IF
 * 1) Gram stain revealed Gram-positive cocci in clte usters
 * 2) Isolate was tube-coagulase positive
 * 3) Isolate was DNAase postive