Table 2 |
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Biochemical tests for the differentiation of E. sakazakii. |
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Biochemical Tests |
E. sakazakii (n = 189) |
other α-glucosidase positive strains (n = 39) |
other Enterobacteriaceae (n = 54) |
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α-glucosidase |
100 * |
100 |
0 |
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Arginine dehydrogenase |
97 |
13 |
67 |
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Citrate |
99 |
15 |
80 |
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D-saccharic acid |
0 |
23 |
33 |
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Dulcitol |
8 |
80 |
28 |
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glucose-1-phosphate |
0 |
59 |
83 |
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glucose-6-phosphate |
0 |
46 |
82 |
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Lipase |
96 |
44 |
4 |
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Methyl Red |
5 |
95 |
57 |
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Ornithine decarboxylase |
91 |
0 |
74 |
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Pyruvate |
3 |
92 |
50 |
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Raffinose |
100 |
15 |
63 |
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Sucrose |
100 |
21 |
47 |
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Voges Proskauer |
96 |
0 |
44 |
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Yellow pigment |
98 |
90 |
28 |
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* denotes percent strains from the data set which were positive for the test |
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Iversen et al. BMC Microbiology 2006 6:28 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-6-28 |
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