Biochemical Test of Streptococcus canis

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Biochemical Test of Streptococcus canis

Basic Characteristics Properties (Streptococcus canis)
CAMP Negative (-ve)
Catalase Negative (-ve)
Gram Staining Positive (+ve)
OF (Oxidative-Fermentative) Facultative anaerobes
Shape Cocci
Urease Negative (-ve)
VP (Voges Proskauer) Negative (-ve)

Fermentation of

Adonitol Negative (-ve)
Arabinose Negative (-ve)
Arabitol Negative (-ve)
Arbutin Positive (+ve)
Dulcitol Negative (-ve)
Erythritol Negative (-ve)
Fructose Positive (+ve)
Galactose Positive (+ve)
Glucose Positive (+ve)
Glycogen Negative (-ve)
Hippurate Negative (-ve)
Inositol Negative (-ve)
Inulin Negative (-ve)
Lactose Positive (+ve)
Maltose Positive (+ve)
Mannitol Negative (-ve)
Mannose Positive (+ve)
Melibiose Negative (-ve)
Raffinose Negative (-ve)
Rhamnose Negative (-ve)
Ribose Positive (+ve)
Salicin Positive (+ve)
Sorbitol Negative (-ve)
Starch Positive (+ve)
Sucrose Positive (+ve)
Trehalose Variable
Xylose Negative (-ve)

Enzymatic Reactions

Alkaline Phosphatase Positive (+ve)
Arginine Dehydrolase Positive (+ve)
Esculin Hydrolysis Positive (+ve)
Hyalurodinase Negative (-ve)

Streptococcus canis

Figure: Morphological features of large, smooth, white, non-mucoid β-hemolytic colonies of Streptococcus canis. The microorganism was cultured on a sheep blood agar plate for 24 h at 35 °C in 5% CO2. Source: doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2017.01.002.

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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). Sagar is also the ASM Young Ambassador to Nepal for the American Society for Microbiology since 2023 onwards.

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