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