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The sugar in the methyl red broth is glucose, and all enteric species (family Enterobacteriaceae) can ferment glucose. So why are some enteric species methyl red–positive and some species methyl red–negative? That is, how does the methyl red assay separate or distinguish one group of enterics from another?