Abstract: An object is to provide a culture medium in which Enterococcus can be selectively detected. The culture medium for detecting Enterococcus contains an ionic surfactant and polyvinyl alcohol. The culture medium for detecting Enterococcus may further contain a suppressant on Gram-negative bacteria and a ?-glucosidase substrate from which a colored chromogen compound can be released.

Abstract: To provide a method in which staining of a culture medium itself can be suppressed even if an enzyme that can decompose an enzyme substrate to be decomposed by an enzyme of microorganisms inherently exists in an analyte, and target microorangisms can be detected as stained colony with high accuracy, and an enzyme substrate culture medium therefor. A culture medium for detecting microorganisms includes a first layer in which a gelling agent and an enzyme substrate are contained, and a second layer in which a gelling agent is contained and the enzyme substrate is not contained to be laminated adjacently to the first layer, wherein the enzyme substrate is a compound from which a dye compound can be released.

Abstract: A support method of and apparatus for making/editing a formatted document including a plurality types of formatted documents having a mutual relation therebetween. An input device inputs beforehand a relation between document forms before a formatted document is made, the inputted relation is stored in a storage device, and a relation between formatted documents is automatically generated by referring to the relation stored in the storage device.