Research Article
Chemical Composition and Microbial Contaminants of Poha Beer: A Local Nonalcoholic Beverage in the Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana
Table 2
Colony and cell morphology of isolates on blood agar and MacConkey agar.
| Media | Colonial morphology | Cell morphology | Identification |
| Blood agar | Creamy, tiny, and pin-pointed colonies | Gram-positive oval-shaped structures | Yeast | Large, flat colonies of about 3–7 mm in diameter β-haemolytic with dry-white colonies surrounded by areas of white precipitate | Gram-positive rods | Bacillus cereus | MacConkey agar | Pink lactose-fermenting round, raised, entire colony of about 2–3 mm in diameter | Gram-negative rods | Enterobacter sp. | Pink, lactose-fermenting, shiny, round entire convex colony of about 1 mm in diameter | Gram-negative rods | Escherichia coli |
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