Overview
Please help to create a Postive-Negative Table and a Flow Chart for Organism Distinguishment. To get your expected results, you will need to access Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Below is the list of the Organisms.
- Escherichia coli
- Shigella flexneri
- Bifidobacterium bifidum
- Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Pseudomonas fluorescens
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Salmonella enterica
- Bacillus megaterium
- Proteus mirabilis
- Enterobacter aerogenes
- Micrococcus luteus
- Bacillus cereus
- Bacillus subtilis
Using the following tests:
- Gram Stain
- Methyl Red Test
- Citrate Utilization
- Motility
- Urea Hydrolysis
- Starch Hydrolysis
- H2S production
- Fermentation of different sugars (note that each sugar counts as its own test
Please see the attached files for the Details and Examples for Postive - Negative Table and Flowchart