Record results obtained with the different confirmatory tests. Tentatively identify as B. cereus those isolates which 1) produce large Gram-positive rods with spores that do not swell the sporangium; 2) produce lecithinase and do not ferment mannitol on MYP agar; 3) grow and produce acid from glucose anaerobically; 4) reduce nitrate to nitrite (a few strains may be negative); 5) produce acetylmethylcarbinol (VP-positive); 6) decompose L-tyrosine; and 7) grow in the presence of 0.001% lysozyme.