Biochemical Test of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Biochemical Test of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Basic Characteristics Properties (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
Bile Solubility Positive (+ve)
Catalase Negative (-ve)
Gram Staining Positive (+ve)
Hemolysis Alfa Hemolysis
Motility Non-motile
OF (Oxidative-Fermentative) Facultative anaerobes
Oxidase Negative (-ve)
Shape Diplococci
Spore Non-sporing
Urease Negative (-ve)
VP (Voges Proskauer) Negative (-ve)

Fermentation of

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

Enzymatic Reactions

Alkaline Phosphatase Negative (-ve)
Arginine Dehydrolase Positive (+ve)
Esculin Hydrolysis Variable
Hyalurodinase Positive (+ve)
Neuraminidase Positive (+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). Sagar is also the ASM Young Ambassador to Nepal for the American Society for Microbiology since 2023 onwards.

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