Which non-pathogen closely resembles Staph aureus?

Question

Looking for some indicator organism which closely matches Staphyloccus aureus, and easy to enumerate

Answer 1

There are other Staphylococci which are non-pathogenic - those having a negative coagulase test for instance.

Being they are genus Staphyloccus, they will have many characteristics in common.

Answer 2

Staph epi. and staph sapro. are nonpathogens which can become pathogenic in certain situations. both are coagulative negative which determines if it is aureua or not. Then a Novabiocin test determines if a bug is Staph eip. or Staph sapro.