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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1969 December; 18(6): 1015-1024
Copyright © 1969 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Practical Physiological Schema for the Identification of Herellea vaginicola and its Differentiation from Similar Organisms

National Communicable Disease Center, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Atlanta, Georgia 30333

ABSTRACT

A seven-test schema is presented that will identify Herellea vaginicola and differentiate it from Mima, Moraxella, and other gram-negative organisms whose biochemical reactions are similar to those of Herellea. Of 133 cultures examined, 49 were Herellea strains accurately identified by this schema: 34 of the 49 cultures were the capsular type strains of Herellea and 15 strains were from a group of 53 ATCC cultures listed under several different taxons. The remaining 84 non-Herellea cultures yielded 4 (4.7%) false positive identifications for Herellea; two were from a selected group of organisms (EO-1) whose taxonomic position is undetermined and two were Klebsiella ozaenae. Since neither of these groups is frequently encountered in clinical specimens, from a practical viewpoint they present no particular problem in the identification of Herellea. We recommend the use of the seven tests as described in this paper as a routine procedure for the identification of H. vaginicola.