Fig. 7: Streptococcus pyogenes
Growing on Blood Agar with a Taxo A Disc

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

Microbiology Laboratory Manual by Gary E. Kaiser, PhD, Professor of Microbiology
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