esculin การใช้

• It is positive for glucose fermentation, esculin and produces oval, terminal spores.
• It does not hydrolyze starch or esculin.
• When new techniques are produced to identify enterococci, they are often compared to the use of bile esculin agar.
• Raw Horse Chestnut seed, leaf, bark and flower are toxic due to the presence of esculin and should not be ingested.
• They are leucine aminopeptidase positive, pyrrolidonylarylamidase negative, and do not grow in 6.5 % NaCl, and almost all species are negative for growth on bile esculin agar.
• "' Bile Esculin Agar "'( "'BEA "') is a selective differential agar used to isolate and identify members of the genus " Enterococcus ", formerly part of the " group D streptococci " ( enterococci were reclassified in their own genus in 1984 ).