Your Name _______________________                    First Unknown

Unknown Number _______             Species: ____________________     ____________________

Broth Characteristics          ____________________________________________________________

Circle your results:

Test

Positive

Negative

Motility

Spread away from stab mark

Near stab mark.

Glucose Broth – Acid

Yellow

Orange or Red

TSI – Only uses glucose

Red Slant /Yellow Butt

Other than  Red/Yellow

Glucose Broth – Gas

Bubble in Durham Tube

No Bubble

TSI – Gas

Split Agar, Bubbles in Agar

No Split or Bubbles

TSI – Lactose/Sucrose Acid

Yellow Slant/Yellow Butt

Other than Yellow/Yellow

Lactose Broth - Acid

Yellow

Red or Orange

Lactose Broth - Gas

Bubble in Durham Tube

No Bubble

MacConkey Gram Positive

Absence of Colonies

Presence of Colonies **

MacConkey Lactose

Red, Pink Colonies

Colonies not Red, Pink

Gelatin Hydrolysis

Liquid after ice, Room Temp.

Solid after ice, Room Temp.

TSI - Hydrogen Sulfide

Black

Not Black

Catalase – Hydrogen Peroxide

Bubbles

No Bubbles

Citrate Utilization

 Any Blue (colony growth)

Green, no colony growth

Oxidase Deep

Pink/Purple at 10 to 30 seconds

Not Pink/Purple

Indole Deep

Red at 10 to 30 seconds

Not Red

Thioglycolate Tube

Aerobic          

Anaerobic

Facultatively Anaerobic

**Don’t circle if colonies are not present.

Draw Pictures

Streak Plate (nutrient agar or brain/heart agar)

Colony Shape ___________________           Colony Margin ______________ 

Colony Elevation _________________    

 Other Colony Characteristics ______________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Gram Stain at 100x with oil

Color ______________          Cell Shape ____________      Cell Arrangement ___________

Gram Positive or Gram Negative? ____________