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Identification

Bacteriology Identification standards covering techniques used for bacterial identification.

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

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Issue date: 6 August 2025

Issue number: 4

Please note that the title has been changed from  ‘Introduction to the preliminary identification of medically important bacteria and fungi from culture’ to ‘Introduction to the identification of medically important bacteria and fungi from culture’

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: 31 July 2025

Issue number: 4.1

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: 31 July 2025

Issue number: 3.1

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: 31 July 2025

Issue number: 4.1

ID 21 - Identification of Yersinia species

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Issue date: 31 July 2025

Issue number: 3.1

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 (STEC)

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Issue date: 6 August 2025

Issue number: 5.1

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

ID 23 - Identification of Campylobacter species

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Issue date: 31 July 2025

Issue number: 3.2

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