Microbial Diagnostic Disks: Introduction, List of Disks, Uses, and Related Footages

Optochin Susceptibility Test

Introduction of Microbial Diagnostic Disks Microbial Diagnostic Disks make it easy to presumptive identification of organisms. They are simple and easy to handle for the identification of bacteria in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Some common examples of such disks are optochin, oxidase, and bacitracin. List …

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Bile Esculin Test: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result Interpretation, Uses, Limitation, Keynotes, and Related Footages

Bile Esculin Test: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result Interpretation, Uses, Limitation, Keynotes, and Related Footages

Introduction of Bile Esculin test Bile esculin test is widely used to differentiate Enterococci from streptococci, other than streptococcus bovis as well as Yersinia enterocolitica from food and animal feeding stuff and Listeria monocytogenes which are bile tolerant and can hydrolyze esculin to esculetin, it reacts …

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