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Identification

Bacteriology Identification standards covering techniques used for bacterial identification.

ID 1 - Introduction to the preliminary identification of medically important bacteria and fungi from culture

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Issue date: 23 Sep 2021

Issue number: 3

ID 2 - Identification of Corynebacterium species

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Issue date: 11 July 2025

Issue number: 5.1

ID 3 - Identification of Listeria species

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Issue date: 11 July 2025

Issue number: 4.2

ID 4 - Identification of Streptococcus species, Enterococcus species and morphologically similar organisms

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Issue date: 22 September 2021

Issue number: 4

ID 5 - Identification of Bordetella species

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Issue date: 10 August 2020

Issue number: 4

ID 6 - Identification of Neisseria species

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Issue date: 11 July 2025

Issue number: 4.1

he syndromic algorithm S 6: Infectious syndromes affecting the genitourinary tract and reproductive organs provides supporting information related to this UK SMI.

ID 7 - Identification of Staphylococcus species, Micrococcus species and Rothia species

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Issue date: 26 May 2020 

Issue number: 4

ID 8 - Identification of Clostridium species

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Issue date: 11 July 2025

Issue number: 4.2

The syndromic algorithm S 7: Gastroenteritis provides supporting information related to this UK SMI.’

ID 9 - Identification of Bacillus species

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Issue date: 11 July 2025

Issue number: 3.2

Please note: RUCs for this document is not available.

ID 10 - Identification of aerobic actinomycetes

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Issue date: 17 July 2025

Issue number: 2.3

ID 11 - Identification of Moraxella species and morphologically similar organisms

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Issue date: 3 February 2015 

Issue number: 3

ID 12 - Identification of Haemophilus species and the HACEK group of organisms

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Issue date: 17 July 2025

Issue number: 5.1

The HACEK group refers to

  • Haemophilus species
  • Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (formerly Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans)
  • Aggregatibacter aphrophilus (formerly Haemophilus aphrophilus and Haemophilus paraphrophilus)
  • Cardiobacterium hominis
  • Eikenella corrodens
  • Kingella species

ID 13 - Identification of Pasteurella species and morphologically similar bacteria

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Issue date: 17 July 2025

Issue number: 3.1

ID 14 - Identification of anaerobic cocci

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Issue date: 17 July 2025

Issue number: 3.1

Please note: RUCs for this document is not available.

ID 15 - Identification of Actinomyces species

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Issue date: 17 July 2025

Issue number: 3.2

Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Identification of anaerobic Actinomyces species’ to ‘Identification of Actinomyces species’.

ID 16 - Identification of Enterobacteriaceae

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Issue date: 13 April 2015

Issue number: 4

ID 17 - Identification of Pseudomonas species and other non glucose fermenters

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Issue date: 17 September 2024

Issue number: 4

Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Identification of glucose non-fermenting gram negative rods’ to ‘Pseudomonas species and other non glucose fermenters’.

ID 18 - Identification of Legionella species

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Issue date: 14 April 2015 

Issue number: 3

ID 19 - Identification of Vibrio and Aeromonas species

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Issue date: 14 April 2015

Issue number: 3

Please note that the title has been changed from 'Identification of Vibrio species' to ‘Identification of Vibrio and Aeromonas species’.

ID 20 - Identification of Shigella species

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Issue date: 22 April 2022 

Issue number: 4

ID 21 - Identification of Yersinia species

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Issue date: 26 June 2015

Issue number: 3

Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Identification of Yersinia species from faece’ to ‘Identification of Yersinia species’.

ID 22 – Identification of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli using conventional methods

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Issue date: 16 May 2023

Issue number: 5

Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Identification of vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli O157’ to ‘Identification of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) using conventional methods’

ID 23 - Identification of Campylobacter species

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Issue date: 2 March 2018

Issue number: 3.1

ID 24 - Identification of Salmonella species

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Issue date: 12 March 2021

Issue number: 4

ID 25 - Identification of anaerobic Gram negative rods

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Issue date: 29 June 2015 

Issue number: 2

ID 26 - Identification of Helicobacter species

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Issue date: 3 July 2015 

Issue number: 3