Table 1. Biochemical characteristics of S. flexneri serotype 4s isolates.
| No. | Biochemical characteristics |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IND | GLU | MAN | SOR | MEL | ARA | others* | |
| BJ4s01 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| BJ4s02 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| BJ4s03 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| BJ4s04 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| BJ4s05 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| GX4s01 | + | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| GX4s02 | + | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| GX4s03 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| GX4s04 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| GX4s05 | + | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| HN4s01 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| HN4s02 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| HN4s03 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| HN4s04 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| HN4s05 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| HN4s06 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| SH4s01 | + | + | + | + | − | + | − |
| SH4s02 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| SH4s04 | − | + | + | − | − | + | − |
| SH4s05 | + | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| SH4s06 | + | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| SH4s07 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| SH4s08 | + | + | + | − | + | + | − |
| SH4s09 | − | + | + | − | + | + | − |
IND, indole; GLU, glucose; MAN, mannitol; SOR, sorbitol; MEL, melibiose; ARA, arabinose. “others*” includes: o-nitrophenyl-β-D-galactopyranoside, arginine dihydrolase, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, citrate utilization, H2S, urease, rhamnose, tryptophane deaminase, acetoin, gelatinase, inositol, sucrose, amygdalin.