Biochemical Test of Proteus mirabilis

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Biochemical Test of Proteus mirabilis

­Basic Characteristics Properties ( Proteus mirabilis )
Capsule Negative (-ve)
Catalase Positive (+ve)
Citrate Positive (+ve)
Flagella Positive (+ve)
Gas from Glucose Positive (+ve)
Gelatin Hydrolysis Positive (+ve)
Gram Staining Negative (-ve)
Growth in KCN Positive (+ve)
H2S Positive (+ve)
Indole Negative (-ve)
Motility Positive (+ve)
MR (Methyl Red) Positive (+ve)
Nitrate Reduction Positive (+ve)
OF (Oxidative-Fermentative) Facultative anaerobes
Oxidase Negative (-ve)
Pigment Negative (-ve)
Shape Rods
Spore Negative (-ve)
Urease Positive (+ve)
VP (Voges Proskauer) Negative (-ve)

Fermentation of
Adonitol Negative (-ve)
Arabinose Negative (-ve)
Arabitol Negative (-ve)
Cellobiose Negative (-ve)
DNase Variable
Dulcitol Negative (-ve)
Erythritol Negative (-ve)
Glucose Positive (+ve)
Glycerol Positive (+ve)
Inositol Negative (-ve)
Lactose Negative (-ve)
Malonate Negative (-ve)
Maltose Negative (-ve)
Mannitol Negative (-ve)
Mannose Negative (-ve)
Melibiose Negative (-ve)
Mucate Negative (-ve)
MyoInositol Negative (-ve)
Raffinose Negative (-ve)
Rhamnose Negative (-ve)
Salicin Negative (-ve)
Sorbitol Negative (-ve)
Starch Negative (-ve)
Sucrose Negative (-ve)
Tartrate Positive (+ve)
Trehalose Positive (+ve)
Xylose Positive (+ve)

Enzymatic Reactions
Acetate Utilization Negative (-ve)
Aesculine Hydrolysis Negative (-ve)
Casein Hydrolysis Negative (-ve)
Esculin Hydrolysis Negative (-ve)
Lipase Positive (+ve)
Lysine decarboxylases Negative (-ve)
ONPG (β-galactosidase) Negative (-ve)
Ornithine Decarboxylase Positive (+ve)
Pectate Degradation Negative (-ve)
Phenylalanine Deaminase Positive (+ve)
Tryptophan Deaminase Negative (-ve)

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Sagar Aryal

Sagar Aryal is a microbiologist and a scientific blogger. He is doing his Ph.D. at the Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He was awarded the DAAD Research Grant to conduct part of his Ph.D. research work for two years (2019-2021) at Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrucken, Germany. Sagar is interested in research on actinobacteria, myxobacteria, and natural products. He is the Research Head of the Department of Natural Products, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences (KRIBS), Lalitpur, Nepal. Sagar has more than ten years of experience in blogging, content writing, and SEO. Sagar was awarded the SfAM Communications Award 2015: Professional Communicator Category from the Society for Applied Microbiology (Now: Applied Microbiology International), Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK).

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