ANTIBIOTIC ASSAY MEDIUM NO. 36 (SOYA BEAN CASEIN DIGEST AGAR) (TRYPTONE SOYA AGAR) (as per USP) (VEG.)

This medium is prepared by completely replacing animal based peptones with vegetable peptones that are free of BSE/TSE risks. Soyabean Veg Agar is the modification of Soyabean Casein Digest Agar with replacement of Casein enzymic hydrolysate by Veg hydrolysate. Soyabean Veg Agar can be used as a general purpose medium used for multiple applications e.g. as a blood culture medium, as maintenance medium for culture collections (including maintenance of stock cultures), for testing bacterial contaminants and isolating fastidious organisms on enrichment with blood. It serves as a nutritive base to which variety of supplements can be added. On supplementation with blood it can be also used to determine haemolytic bacteria. This medium can also be used for sensitivity testing by tube dilution method of anitmicrobial agents, plate counting, against animal based Soyabean Casein Digest Agar. This medium is employed for cultivation and isolation of fastidious and non-fastidious microorganisms.

for enrichment and isolation of fastidious microorganisms with or without blood