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latex agglutination tests, and another by reduces nitrates but will not hydrolyze gelatin
Tecra, utilizing the ELISA format. or urea, and is methyl red and Voges-
Other Bacillus suspected of causing food- Proskauer reaction negative. It will grow
borne diseases include Bacillus licheniformis between 25° and 43°C. The organism is an
and Bacillus subtilis, in which large numbers obligate microaerophile that grows optimally
(105 to 106 organisms/gram of food) of these in 5% oxygen. This attribute has been used
organisms are ingested by susceptible for isolation of the organism by applying
persons. It should be noted that Bacillus sub- appropriate gas mixtures into the head space
tilis var natto is used to ferment a popular of cultivation media. Recently in the author ’s