Elek Test:
Antitoxin which has been impregnated in a strip of sterile filter paper is placed
on the surface of the agar medium after a heavy inoculum is streaked at right
angles to the position of the paper strip, and allowed to incubate for 24 hours.
If the organism is toxigenic, a visible line of Ag-Ab precipitate will form.
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