haemolysin

Blood agar haemolysis is used to determine the haemolytic ability of some pathogenic microorganisms including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and Micrococcus species. Some pathogenic bacteria are capable of expressing some specific exotoxins known as haemolysin – which reacts as antibodies homologous to the surface antigens of red blood cells (erythrocytes). This phenomenon allows these organisms […]