Bile Esculin Agar (BEA Test)

Biology Professor (Twitter: @DrWhitneyHolden) teaches you about Bile Esculin Agar, its components/ingedients, and how it is used to distinguish Enterococcus from Streptococcus and other microbes.
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4:30 Enterococcus faecalis were formerly called in older textbooks " streptococcus faecalis " which belonged to (gamma hemolytic) streptococci species , while group D streptococci in (Lancefield classification) are still called " streptococcus Bovis " .

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Hello mam I'm from India and this video really helped me out from my huge syllabus thank you😊😊😊Hare Krishna🙏

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Thanks 🙏

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huge thanks

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Thanks ma'am you made my work easy ❤.

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Thanks its cool

[@jaynzai9279]

you should know that it's also possible to use agar plates instead of agar slants👍

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Can I transfer Enterococcus faecalis culture grown on BEA to TSB for further use?

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Hey you teach in which institution in which country??