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Isolated from sewage, human intestines, and urinary tract infections. Spreading colonies are seen on agar growth medium. 

Lancefield group A, beta hemolysis. Sensitive to bacitracin. Causes strep throat, rheumatic fever, and scarlet fever.

This organism is commonly recovered from soil and water. As normal intestinal flora, it can also usually be found in sewage.

This organism can be isolated from soil, wounds, and intestinal tracts of humans. It digests protein and is known for its strong, distinctive odor.

Red-pigmented halophile from evaporating salt ponds; requires 25% salt medium, lyses easily in plain water, releasing DNA.

This organism is commonly isolated from soil, and depending upon the temperature of its environment, can produce a distinctive red pigment.

This organism is a common inhabitant of intestinal flora, and can be a major cause of urinary tract infection.

This "many-headed" organism is a plasmodial slime mold commonly found in forests on decaying deciduous trees. Available in both plasmodial and sclerotial stages.

Kocuria rhizophila is also commonly known by the name Micrococcus luteus. This organism is commonly isolated from soil, and is frequently used to test antimicrobial efficacy in the food industry.

A Common Intestinal Flora Isolate, Demonstrates Alpha Hemolysis on Blood Agar Growth Medium

This species of Rhodospirillum is commonly isolated from stagnant water and mud. It is especially interesting because it produces a red pigment and is also capable of photosynthesis.

Penicillium notatum is a deuteromycete that produces penicillin. It is available in normal and high-yield strains.

Normal flora of respiratory tract. Beta-lactamase positive. Also known by the name Branhamella catarrhalis

This yellow, shiny organism is known to cause wound infections and more famously, toxic shock syndrome.

This organism is occasionally isolated from soil, but most frequently from smegma- a secretion from male and female genitalia.

This organism is normal flora of human intestine and may be pathogenic in humans. This organism will grow in Sodium chloride solution.