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Use of Selenite Reduction in Bacterial Classification
Author(s) -
Lapage S. P.,
Bascomb Shoshana
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1968.tb00407.x
Subject(s) - selenium , nitrate , reduction (mathematics) , chemistry , biology , environmental chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , geometry
SUMMARY The ability of 548 strains of Gram negative rods to reduce selenite was investigated in parallel with their ability to produce H 2 S and reduce nitrate. Reduction of selenite was shown to be a reasonably good test compared with other tests used in classifying these organisms. The ability to reduce selenite often paralleled the ability to produce H 2 S; it did not parallel the ability to reduce nitrate.