This post was most recently updated on February 1st, 2020Voges-Proskauer is a double eponym, named after two microbiologists working at the beginning of the 20th century. They first observed the red color reaction produced by […]
This post was most recently updated on May 17th, 2017CLED (cysteine-, lactose-, and electrolyte-deficient) agar is a differential culture medium for use in isolating and enumerating bacteria in urine from the suspected cases of Urinary […]
This post was most recently updated on April 14th, 2018Decarboxylases are a group of substrate specific enzymes that are capable of reacting with the carboxyl (COOH) portion of amino acids, forming alkaline-reacting amines and byproduct […]
This post was most recently updated on May 2nd, 2019Hippurate is the glycine conjugate of benzoic acid. When hippurate is hydrolysed by an organism glycine and benzoic acid are formed. In the classical test (48 […]
This post was most recently updated on December 27th, 2018Streptococci are Gram positive cocci either diplococci (lanceolate shaped; S. pneumoniae) or in chains. They are catalase negative (An important test which differentiate it from another […]
This post was most recently updated on April 29th, 2015Monospot test is a form of the heterophile antibody test which is used for the rapid screening of infectious mononucleosis (mono). Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) causes the […]
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