“…Because of their ubiquitous nature and relatively low virulence, staphylococci, other than S. aureus, in the past were often simply reported by the microbiology laboratory as CoNS. However, over the past 15 years, there has been increased documentation of ocular infections caused by CoNS (1,(5)(6)9,(25)(26) . Because the antimicrobial susceptibility of CoNS is unpredictable, and because multiresistant isolates are common, the recommendation now is to perform antimicrobial susceptibility testing in all cases of clinically significant ocular infections caused by these organisms.…”