API

Analytical Profile Index

MALDI-TOF

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight mass

spectrometry

CPHL

Central Public Health Laboratories

ONPG

O-Nitrophenyl-b-D-galactopyranoside

TDA

Tryptophan Desaminase

VP

Voges-Proskauer test

ADH

Arginine Di hydrolase

LDC

Lysine Decarboxylase

ODC

Ornithine Decarboxylase

URE

Urea

H2S

Hydrogen Sulphide

IND

Indole

GEL

Gelatine

GLU

Glucose (hexose sugar)

MAN

Mannose (hexose sugar)

INO

Inositol (cyclic polyalcohol)

SOR

Sorbitol (alcohol sugar)

RHA

Rhamnose (methyl pentose sugar)

SAC

Sucrose (disaccharide)

MEL

Melibiose (disaccharide)

AMY

Amygdalin (glycoside)

ARA

Arabinose (pentose sugar)