Bile esculin agar

Bile esculin agar

Bile Esculin Agar (BEA) is a selective differential agar used to isolate and identify members of the genus "Enterococcus". Bile salts are the selective ingredient, while esculin is the differential component. "Enterococcus" hydrolyze esculin to products that react with ferric citrate in the medium to produce insoluble iron salts, resulting in the blackening of the medium. Test results must be interpreted in conjunction with gram stain morphology.

Bile Esculin Agar is used primarily to differentiate "Enterococcus" from "Streptococcus". Members of the genus Enterococcus are capable of growing in the presence of 4% bile (oxgall) and hydrolyzing esculin to glucose and esculetin. Esculetin combines with ferric ions to produce a black complex.

For some purposes, it should be noted that certain bacteria are able to hydrolise aesculin. A plate containing aesculin will fluoresce a pale blue under UV radiation. Some bacteria can hydrolise this, leading to UV dark colonies, as opposed to UV light ones.

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