Description of staphylococcal strains from Straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) and Diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata)

In the present study, isolates and their genome sequences, from wild African Straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) and from a Diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata, an estrildid finch) kept in a German aviary are described. The isolates possessed staphyloxanthin genes and were closer related to S. argenteus and S. schweitzeri than to S. aureus. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that they were nearly identical to both, S. roterodami and S. singaporensis.