Streptococcus pyogenes Growing on Blood Agar (Indirect Lighting)


Note small, white opaque colonies, beta hemolysis (complete lysis of the red blood cells around the colonies; see arrows), and sensitivity to the antibiotic bacitracin in the Taxo A® disc.

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