| Number of isolates | Identification method | Strains |
| 48 | (i) Sporulation test (ii) Mossel medium (iii) 3% KOH | Bacillus cereus (S2, S3, S4, S6, S7, S9, S10, S12, S13, S17, S18, S20, S21, S24, S28, S20, S56, S57, S58, S59) Bacillus spp. (S1, S11, S19, S22, S23, S27 S32, S43, S44, S47, S50, S51) | (i) Sporulation test (ii) Mossel medium (iii) 3% KOH (iv) 16S rRNA gene | Bacillus cereus (S34, S35, S64) Bacillus subtilis (S48) Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (S63) Bacillus licheniformis (S62) Bacillus altitudinis (S42, S15) Bacillus megaterium (S14, S32, S52, S45, S46) Bacillus marisflavi (S54, S55, S60) Bacillus anthracis (S61) |
| 6 | (i) Chapman (ii) Medium (iii) 3% KOH (iv) 16S rRNA gene | Staphylococcus spp. (S41b, S53) S. aureus (S16, S25, S30, S53) |
| 16 | (i) EMB (ii) SS (iii) 3% KOH (iv) Enterosystem 18R (v) Targeted genes: icsB (Shigella spp.) and invG (Salmonella spp.) | Pseudomonas aeruginosa (S65) Pseudomonas spp. (S70) Salmonella enterica ssp.arizonae. (S66) Citrobacter sp.(S67) Enterobacter sp. (S68) Escherichia coli (S8a, S39) Shigella flexneri (S8b, S31, S69) Shigella sp. (S52) Salmonella sp. (S29, S33) Klebsiella pneumoniae (S26) Klebsiella spp. (S37) Enterobacter agglomerans (S36) |
| 2 | (i) EMB (ii) 3% KOH (iii) 16S rRNA gene | Acinetobacter nosocomialis (S5) Acinetobacter haemolyticus (S38) |
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