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CLED Agar: composition, uses and typical colony characteristics

March 16, 2015 tankeshwar 23

CLED (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 Tract Infection. CLED Agar supports the growth of all […]

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Decarboxylation Test:  Types, uses, principles, procedure and results

March 16, 2015 tankeshwar 6

Decarboxylases 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 carbon dioxide.  Increased pH of the medium is detected by […]

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Hippurate Hydrolysis test: principle, procedure, uses and results

March 14, 2015 tankeshwar 1

Hippurate 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 hour), The benzoic acid produced was detected using ferric […]

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Lancefield grouping of clinically relevant beta-hemolytic streptococci

March 12, 2015 tankeshwar 6

Streptococci 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 cocci, Staphylococci). This fastidious gram positive cocci may give […]

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Tween 80 hydrolysis test: Principle, Procedure and results

February 17, 2015 tankeshwar 0

Tween 80 is the trade name of the  detergent polyethylene derivative of sorbitan mono-oleate. Some Mycobacterium species posses an enzyme-lipase, that splits the compound and releases oleic acid  and polyoxyethylated sorbitol. Positive reactions occur in […]

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ONPG Test (for β-galactosidase): Principle, procedure and results

February 6, 2015 tankeshwar 2

O-Nitrophenyl-β-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG) is structurally similar to lactose (i.e. ONPG is an analog of lactose), except that orthonitrophenyl has been substituted for glucose. On hydrolysis, through the action of the enzyme β-galactosidase, ONPG cleaves into two […]

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Nitrate Reduction Test: Principle, Procedure and Results

January 30, 2015 tankeshwar 16

Nitrate reduction test is used for the differentiation of members of Enterobacteriaceae on the basis of their ability to produce nitrate reductase enzyme that hydrolyze nitrate (NO3–) to nitrite (NO2–) which may then again be degraded […]

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Hektoen Enteric (HE) Agar: composition, principle and uses

January 27, 2015 tankeshwar 0

Hektoen Enteric (HE) Agar was introduced in 1968 by Sylvia King and William I. Metzger. They formulated HE Agar medium while working at the Hektoen Institute in Chicago, to increase the recovery Salmonella and Shigella from clinical specimens. […]

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Culture media used for isolation and identification of Salmonella typhi and paratyphi

January 27, 2015 tankeshwar 9

Salmonella is a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is a Gram-negative bacilli, motile and non-lactose fermenter. The genus can be divided into two species (S. enterica and S. bongori), based on their phenotypic profile. […]

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String test for Laboratory diagnosis of Vibrio Cholerae

January 23, 2015 tankeshwar 0

Principle String Test: When an isolated colony (18-24 hour growth) of a suspected bacterium is emulsified in Sodium deoxycholate or Sodium taurocholate (commonly known as bile salt),it lyses the cell wall of the bacterium releasing […]

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Deoxyribonuclease (DNase) Test: Principle, Procedure and  results

December 23, 2014 tankeshwar 3

DNA Hydrolysis test or Deoxyribonuclease (DNase) test is used to determine the ability of an organism to hydrolyze DNA and utilize it as a source of carbon and energy for growth. An agar medium; DNase agar, a […]

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Methyl Red (MR) test: Principle, procedure and results

January 24, 2014 tankeshwar 10

Methyl Red (MR)  test determines whether the microbe performs mixed acids fermentation when supplied glucose. Types and proportion of fermentation products produced by anaerobic fermentation of glucose is one of the key taxonomic characteristics which […]

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