Identification of an Unknown Enteric Organism

Purpose To use the techniques you have learned to identify an unknown pure culture
Materials Same as in Experiments 24.2 and 24.3 except that your assigned culture is numbered, not labeled

Procedures
  1. Prepare a Gram stain of your culture.
  2. Inoculate the culture on EMB or MacConkey, HE, and BiS plates, and streak for isolation.
  3. Inoculate all tubed media provided.
  4. Incubate plates and tubes at 35°C for 24 hours.

Results
Read and record your results across one line of the following table. Also record all results obtained by your neighbors with different isolates. Using table 24.3-1, identify the unknown organisms.

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