Non-specificity of Staphylococcus generic primers

Abstract

Our results allow us to conclude that there appears to be significant conservation between the tuf genes of Planococcus, Planomicrobium and Staphylococcus spp., and that although the primer set TstaG422/TStag765 has been shown to possess high specificity, its use for the definitive identification of Staphylococcus spp. must be treated with some caution.