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Furazolidone Susceptibility Test: Principle, Procedure, and Results

Furazolidone (furoxone) susceptibility test is performed as a disk susceptibility procedure using commercially available furazolidone disks. Staphylococci are inhibited by furazolidone, but...

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Kligler’s Iron Agar (KIA): Principle, Procedure, Results

Kligler's Iron Agar (KIA) is used for the detection of carbohydrate fermentation. Reactions of KIA helps to include/exclude particular bacterial isolate in the family Enterobacteriaceae.  If an...

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Carbohydrate Fermentation Test: Uses, Principle, Procedure, Results

The carbohydrate fermentation test is used to determine whether or not bacteria can ferment a specific carbohydrate. Carbohydrate fermentation patterns are useful in differentiating among...

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Phenylalanine Deaminase Test: Principle, Procedure, Results

Phenylalanine deaminase test also known as phenylpyruvic acid (PPA) test is used to test the ability of an organism to produce enzyme deaminase. This enzyme removes the amine group from the amino...

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Oxidative fermentative (OF) test:  Principle, Procedure, Results

Hugh and Leifson developed the oxidative-fermentative (OF) test in 1953. They developed OF media to differentiate between oxidative bacteria (that produces acid from carbohydrates under aerobic...

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Elek Test: Principle, Procedure, Results

Elek test is an in vitro immunoprecipitation (immunodiffusion) test to determine whether or not a strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae is toxigenic. A test strip of filter paper containing...

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