Staphylococcus epidermidisis gamma-hemolytic. Often when inoculating a BAP to observe hemoloysis patterns, investigators will also stab several times through the agar using an inoculating loop. This ...

This is in contrast to Streptococcus species, whose growth is selected against by this high salt agar (plate ... to turn yellow. Staphylococcus aureus is capable of fermenting mannitol (left side of ...