“…However, those techniques remain time-consuming and sometimes of limited value, as for example for CoNS, where commercial identification kits identified only 37% of 177 CoNS isolates with the API 20 Staph system (3). Ribotyping and PCR amplicon sequencing-based methods for identification of CoNS have been described (1,3,5,6,10,14,20,22,25). The methods targeting the sodA or the tuf gene are currently preferred for diagnostic purposes (20,22,25).…”