Listeria monocytogenes and S.agalactiae CAMP test

The CAMP test with Listeria monocytogenes, Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus.
The reverse CAMP test with Arcanobacterium haemolyticum.

L.monocytogenes produce diffusible protein that acts synergistically with the beta-lysin produced by Staphylococcus aureus to produce a zone of enhanced lysis of sheep erythrocytes. The enhanced haemolysis adjacent to the beta-lysin producing S.aureus strain is less apparent and rectangular in shape compared with the arrow-head shape of Streptococcus agalactiae (see also here).