Neonatal meningitis: Laboratory Identification

Colony Morphology

  • Photograph of the surface of blood agar after 24 hours incubation at 35C in 10% CO2, on which are growing tiny, translucent, gray colonies surrounded by a narrow zone of "soft" beta hemolysis.
  • There was no growth on the MacConkey plate.

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