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THE phenylalanine test is of great value for investigating cultures of organisms in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Organisms in the Proteus group are able to de-aminate the amino-acid, phenylalanine, to form phenylpyruvic acid, whereas members of the other groups in the family are unable to do so. Buttiaux et al. 1 claim that this test is more reliable than the urease test for the identification of Proteus strains.
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Buttiaux, R., Moriamez, J., and Papavassiliou, J., Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 90, 133 (1956).
Stewart, D. J., Nature, 183, 1537 (1959).
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STEWART, D. A Micro-method for performing the Phenylalanine Test on Cultures from Multi-carbohydrate Media. Nature 191, 521–522 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191521a0
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