Name:	Staph aureus
Morphology:	clusters/tetrads
Gram Stain:	Gram-Positive Cocci
Growth Characteristics:	buttery yellow colonies on mannitol salt agar
Test Profile:	catalase positive, coagulase positive
Description:	aerobic, "Grape like clusters" Causes food poisoning (within 4-6 hours of ingestion of contaminated food), boils and other skin infections, osteomyelitis, post-operative infections, sepsis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome, scalded skin syndrome, and pneumoniae.