[Evaluation of the lysozyme and DNAase activity for the identification of pathogenic staphylococci]

The sensitivity of two tests recently proposed for the classification of pathogen staphylococci were evaluated: --production of DNA-ase with the modified method of Lachica et al.; --production of lisozyme. The two above tests were studied with other six tests on 1,000 strains of staphylococci showing a very high specificity. The Authors propose that the DNA-ase production and the lisozyme production, also for their very simple execution, should become routine tests to identify the strains of pathogenic staphylococci.