[Technics for isolation, incubation and preliminary identification tests].

In this report the AA. emphasize the fact that anaerobes are mostly isolated from mixed cultures in which several bacteria are present. Therefore they suggest to grow all the bacteria under the best conditions and consequently to select the anaerobes from the aerobes. Furthermore they describe the selecting techniques used at Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Clinica Medica III, to attain this aim and enumerate the best methods used for anaerobic incubation.