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Culture on a plate of Bacteroides fragilis selective (BFS) medium after 48 h of anaerobic incubation at 35°C. B. fragilis (white arrows) appears as large yellow colonies (glucose fermentation) with blackening of the surrounding medium (esculin hydrolysis).
