Description
Intended Use and Principle of Procedure |
Tryptic (Trypticase) Soy Broth conforms with the specifications of The United States Pharmacopeia (USP). Tryptic (Trypticase) Soy Broth (Soybean-Casein Digest Medium) is a general-purpose medium used in qualitative procedures for the cultivation of fastidious and non fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and nonclinical specimens.
Trypticase Soy Broth with 6.5% Sodium Chloride is used to differentiate Enterococcus spp. from the Streptococcus bovis group of streptococci.
Trypticase Soy Broth with 5% Fildes Enrichment is used for the cultivation of fastidious organisms, e.g., Haemophilus influenzae.
Enzymatic digests of casein and soybean meal provide amino acids and other complex nitrogenous substances. Dextrose is an energy source. Sodium chloride maintains the osmotic equilibrium. Dibasic potassium phosphate acts as a buffer to control pH.
The addition of 6.5% sodium chloride to Trypticase Soy Broth permits the differentiation of salt-tolerant enterococci, which are resistant to the high salt content, from the salt-intolerant S. bovis group and other streptococcal species. At this concentration, sodium chloride is a selective agent that interferes with membrane permeability and osmotic and electrokinetic equilibria.
Fildes Enrichment is a peptic digest of sheep blood that sup- plies the X (hemin) and V (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD) factors necessary for the growth of H. influenzae.
Dextrose is omitted from the formula for Tryptic Soy Broth Dextrose to permit the use of the medium in fermentation studies. The carbohydrate concentration used most frequently in fermentation reactions is 0.5% or 1%.
Tryptic Soy Broth and Trypticase Soy Broth are provided as prepared media in a variety of bottle styles. In addition, Tryptic Soy Broth is provided as a Sterile Pack Bottle; i.e., the bottle has been terminally sterilized inside autoclavable double bags. All varieties of bottled TSB conform with requirements for Ready-To-Use Media as described in the USP. |
Summary and Explanation |
Tryptic (Trypticase) Soy Broth (TSB) is a nutritious medium that will support the growth of a wide variety of microorganisms, including common aerobic, facultative, and anaerobic bacteria and fungi.1-4 Because of its capacity for growth promotion, this formulation is included in the USP as a sterility test medium and for use in performing microbial limit testing.
TSB was chosen by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to detect viable bacteria in live vaccines.6 It is used in the coliphage detection procedure, a methodology in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. TSB is recommended for testing bacterial contaminants in cosmetics8 and complies with established standards in the food industry.
TSB is also recommended, because of growth promotion, for use as the inoculum broth for disc diffusion and agar dilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing as standardized by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS).
Trypticase Soy Broth with 6.5% Sodium Chloride is used to differentiate the enterococcal species from the S. bovis group of streptococci by the 6.5% NaCl tolerance test.
Trypticase Soy Broth supplemented with 5% Fildes Enrich- ment provides growth factors necessary for the cultivation of fastidious organisms.
Tryptic Soy Broth without Dextrose, a modification of TSB, is a basal medium to which carbohydrates may be added for use in fermentation studies. Phenol red and other indicators may also be added. |
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