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Characterization of anaerobic bacteria by using a commercially available rapid tube test for glutamic acid
E R Banks1, S D Allen, J A Siders
1Department of Pathology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis 46223.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
A rapid glutamic acid decarboxylase microdilution test for presumptive identification of certain anaerobic bacteria was marketed recently by Carr-Scarborough Microbiologicals, Inc., Stone Mountain, Ga. The test was evaluated with 474 clinical isolates, representing 11 genera and 54 species, and was found to be a useful aid in the presumptive identification of Bacteroides fragilis, B. distasonis, B. vulgatus, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. ovatus, B. uniformis, B. eggerthii, Clostridium perfringens, C. barati, C. sordellii, and Eubacterium limosum.