Tests for bacterial motility
From IDWiki
- Used to detect bacteria that are motile
- Tube motility
- Stab an inoculum down into a tube with semisolid agar
- Check at intervals for diffuse, fuzzy growth that appears outside of the stab line
- Wet prep
- Put a drop of inoculum in distilled water and check under a microscope
- Can compare to a drop of peptone water to identify Vibrio (motile in peptone water, not distilled)
