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In this page you can find the relevant links for 44 useful and most common ( biochemical, microscopic and serological) tests which are used in diagnostic bacteriology for the identification of bacterial isolates. To read about that particular test/method, you can click the link (which will open a description page).

1. Acetate Utilization Test

2. AFB Staining Method 

   

3. Bacitracin Sensitivity Test

4. Bile Solubility Test

5. Butyrate Disk

6. Carbohydrate Fermentation Test

7. CAMP Test

8. Capsule Staining 

9. Catalase Test

10. Citrate Utilization Test

11. Coagulase Test

12. Decarboxylase Tests

13. DNA hydrolysis Tests or Deoxyribonuclease (DNase) test

14. Esculin Hydrolysis Test

15. Flagella Staining 

16. Flourescent Treponemal Antibody Absorption (FTA-ABS) Test

17. Gram Staining Method 

18. Gelatin Hydrolysis Test

19. Hemagglutination Inhibition (HAI) Test

20. Hippurate Hydrolysis Test

21. Indole Production Test

    

22. LAP Test

23. Methyl Red (MR) Test

24. Microdase Test

25. Motility Test

26. MUG Test

27. Nitrate Reduction Test

28. Novobiocin Sensitivity Test 

29. ONPG Test

30. Optochin Sensitivity Test

31. Oxidase Test

32. Oxidation-Fermentation (OF) Test

33. Phenylalanine Deaminase Test

34. PYR Test

35. Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) Test

    

36. Salt Tolerance Test

37. Spore Staining 

38. Treponema Pallidium Hemagglutination Assay (TPHA) Test

39. Triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar Test

40. Urea Hydrolysis (Urease) Test

41. Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) Test

42. Voges-Proskauer (VP) Test

43. Western Blot Assay 

44. X and V factor Test