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===Standard strains=== A number of standard strains of ''S. aureus'' (called "type cultures") are used in research and in laboratory testing, such as: {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;" |+ Standard strains of ''Staphylococcus aureus'' |- ! Name ! NCTC ! ATCC ! Year of deposit ! Comment |- | Oxford H || 6571 || 9144 || 1943 || Standard strain used for testing penicillin potency and by which the penicillin unit was originally defined.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mayr-Harting A | title = The acquisition of penicillin resistance by ''Staphylococcus aureus'', strain Oxford | journal = Journal of General Microbiology | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | pages = 9β21 | date = August 1955 | pmid = 13252206 | doi = 10.1099/00221287-13-1-9 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kearns AM, Ganner M, Holmes A | title = The 'Oxford Staphylococcus': a note of caution | journal = The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | volume = 58 | issue = 2 | pages = 480β1 | date = August 2006 | pmid = 16735421 | doi = 10.1093/jac/dkl230 }}</ref> |- | Rosenbach || 12973 || 29213 || 1884 || Standard strain for EUCAST antimicrobial resistance testing.<ref>{{cite book | author = EUCAST | title = Routine and extended internal quality control for MIC determination and disk diffusion as recommended by EUCAST: version 10.0 | url = https://eucast.org/ast_of_bacteria/quality_control/ | location = VΓ€xjΓΆ, Sweden | publisher = European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | date = 2020-01-01 | page = 9 }}</ref> |}
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