Coagulase positive Novobiocin sensitive

Cocci in clusters Staphylococcus Staphylococcus

Catalase positive aureus epidermidis
Staphylococcus Coagulase negative Novobiocin resistant
Staphylococcus
saprophyticus
Cocc Alpha hemolytic Capsule present, optochin sensitive,
i (green; partial bile soluble
hemolysis) Streptococcus pneumoniae
Cocci in chains Capsule absent, optochin resistant, bile
Catalase insoluble
negative Streptococcus Viridans group
Streptococcus or Bacitracin sensitive
Beta hemolytic Group A Streptococcus: Streptococcus
Enterococcus
(clear; complete pyogenes
Gram positive hemolysis) Bacitracin resistant
(purple on gram Group B Streptococcus: Streptococcus
stain) agalatiae
Enterococcus: E. faecalis, E. faecium
Gamma hemolytic Group D Streptococcus: Streptoccocus
(no hemolysis) gallolyticus (bovis)
Anaerobe
Peptostreptococcus

Aerobe
Bacillus: B. anthrax, B. cereus
Spore
forming Anaerobe
Clostridium: C. difficile, C. perfringens, C. tetani, C. botulinum
Bacillus
Aerobe
Listeria: L. monocytogenes
Corynebacterium: C. diphtheriae

Non-spore
forming Anaerobe
Lactobacillus, Actinomyces, Propionibacterium
 Diplococci Maltose fermenter
Sucrose, glucose, lactose Neisseria meningitidis
Aerobic
fermenter
Nesseria Maltose non-fermenter
Diplococci
Neisseria gonorrhea
Non sucrose, non glucose, non lactose
fermenter
Cocc Moraxella
i
Aerobic Veillonell
a

Requires factors V and X

Gram negative Hemophilus influenza
(pink on gram Coccobacill
stain) us
Does not requires factors V and X
Pasteurella, Brucella, Bordetella
pertussis Oxidase positive
Pseudomonas, Burkholderia cepacia, Vibrio
Non-lactose
cholerae
fermenter Oxidase negative
Aerobic Shigella, Salmonella, Proteus, Helicobacter,
Yersinia
Fast fermenters
Lactose Klebsiella, Escherichia coli,
ferment Enterobacter
er Slow fermenters
Bacillus Citrobacter,
Serratia

Anaero Bacteroides,
bic Fusibacterium