All Cocci are Gram-positive EXCEPT - No Boyfriend Muna para Virgin:
• Neisseria
• Branhamella
• Moraxella
• Veilonella
All Bacilli are Gram-negative EXCEPT - MCC BEL LANGA
• Mycobacterium
• Clostridium
• Corynebacterium
• Bacillus
• E. rushiopathiae
• Lactobacillus
• Listeria
• Arcanobacterium
• Nocardia
• Gardnerella
• Actinomyces
RAPID-LACTOSE FERMENTERS:
TSI: A/A
EKE:
Escherichia
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
LATE-LACTOSE FERMENTERS:
TSI: K/A or A/A
Cit - Ser - Yer - Haf - Sa - Shi is LATE!!
✓Citrobacter
✓ Serratia
✓ Yersinia
✓ Hafnia
✓ Salmonella arizonae
✓ Shigella sonnei
NON-LACTOSE FERMENTERS:
TSI: K/A
pa-SS at Pa PM EkE
- Salmonella
- Shigella
- Proteus
- Providencia
- Morganella
- Edwardsiella
- Erwinia
Some Killers Have Pretty Nice Capsule:
✓ S. pneumoniae
✓ K. pneumoniae
✓ H. influenzae
✓ P. aeruginosa
✓ N. meningitidis
✓ C. neoformans
Non-Motile: “SKY”
- Shigella
- Klebsiella
- Y. enterocolitica
INDOLE POSITIVE: “Mor PEKPEC Ples”
- Morganella
- Proteus vulgaris
- Escherichia coli
- Klebsiella oxytoca
- Providencia
- Edwardsiella tarda
- Citrobacter koseri
- Pleisiomonas
VP POSITIVE: “KEESH”
- Klebsiella
- Ewingella
- Enterobacter
- Serratia
- Hafnia
