SCHAEDLER BROTH 500 grams/bottle

Schaedler Broth is a liquid medium rich in nutrients, like Schaedler Agar but lacking the agar. A large number of pathogenic anaerobic organisms involved in diverse human and animal diseases grow abundantly in this medium. Schaedler Broth is excellent for the primary isolation of anaerobes, for blood cultures and other clinical materials. It is useful for the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobials used in sensitivity tests. The solid medium is not used to perform sensitivity tests because there is no effective agreement between the concentration of the drug and the diameters of the zones of inhibition that are observed when the solid medium is used. TSB Broth, Casein Peptone, Meat Peptone, provide nitrogen, vitamins, minerals and amino acids essential for growth. Yeast Extract is source of vitamins, particularly the B-group. Dextrose is the fermentable carbohydrate providing carbon and energy. Sodium chloride supplies essential electrolytes for transport and osmotic balance. Tris (hydroxymethyl Aminomethane) is used to buffer the medium. Hemin stimulates organism growth. L-Cystine is a reducing agent. The addition of sodium polyanethol-sulphonate (SPS) and carbon dioxide to Schaedler Broth enables it to be used as a blood culture medium and for the cultivation of especially fastidious Bacteroides species.