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API-20ETESTSTRIP—ThisAPI-20Eteststrip(frombioMerieux,Inc.)isusedtoidentifytheentericgramnegativerods(althoughAPImakes ...

Learning Objectives

This API-20E test strip (from bioMerieux, Inc.) is used to identify the enteric gram negative rods (although API makes a variety of other test strips for yeast, Staph, anaerobes, etc.) 20 separate test compartments are on the strip, all dehydrated. A bacterial suspension is used to rehydrate each of the wells. Some of the wells will have color changes due to pH differences: others produce end products that have to be identified with reagents. A profile number is determined from the sequence of + and test results, then looked up in a code book having a correlation between numbers and bacteria...