Patent ID: 7659059

Claim:
A method for detecting a member of the genus Staphylococcus in a biological sample, comprising: A. extracting a nucleic acid material from the biological sample, B. contacting the extracted nucleic acid material with an amplification primer comprising the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO. 1 and/or an amplification primer comprising the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 2 under amplification conditions, wherein if a target sequence is present in the nucleic acid material, then amplicons of the target sequence are obtained by amplification, and C. detecting the amplicons: wherein the presence of the amplicons indicates the presence of the member of the genus Staphylococcus in the sample and the method detects the following members of the genus Staphylococcus: Staphylococcus arlettae; Staphylococcus aureus.aureus; Staphylococcus auricularis; Staphylococcus capitis.capitis; Staphylococcus capitis.ureolyticus, Staphylococcus caprae; Staphylococcus carnosus carnosus; Staphylococcus carnosus utilis; Staphylococcus chromogenes; Staphylococcus cohnii cohnii; Staphylococcus cohnii urealyticum; Staphylococcus condimenti; Staphylococcus delphini; Staphylococcus epidermidis; Staphylococcus equorum; Staphylococcus gallinarum; Staphylococcus haemolyticus; Staphylococcus hominis.hominis; Staphylococcus hominis. novobiosepticus; Staphylococcus hyicus; Staphylococcus intermedius; Staphylococcus kloosii; Staphylococcus lentus, Staphylococcus lugdunensis; Staphylococcus pasteuri; Staphylococcus piscifermentans; Staphylococcus pulvereri; Staphylococcus saprophyticus.bovis; Staphylococcus saprophyticus.saprophyticus; Staphylococcus schleiferi.coagulans; Staphylococcus schleiferi.schleiferi; Staphylococcus sciuri, Staphylococcus simulans; Staphylococcus vitulinus, Staphylococcus warneri and Staphylococcus xylosus.