Staphylococcus lentus

Staphylococcus lentus is a Gram-positive, oxidase-positive, coagulase-negative member of the bacterial genus Staphylococcus consisting of clustered cocci.^[1] The species was originally classified as a subspecies; its name is a combination derived from Staphylococcus sciuri subsp. lentus.^[2]

Staphylococcus lentus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Staphylococcaceae
Genus:	Staphylococcus
Species:	S. lentus
Binomial name
Staphylococcus lentus (Kloos et al. 1976) Schleifer et al. 1983

Of all studied S. sciuri subspecies, only S. lentus has been found to use the trisaccharide raffinose.^[3]