A 35-year-old man from Mumbai with acute bacillary dysentery has a stool culture positive for a gram-negative rod. Preliminary tests show: non-lactose fermenting, non-motile, indole positive, urease negative. Which is the most specific investigation to differentiate this isolate as Shigella flexneri from other Shigella species?

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