ANAEROBIC TRYPTONE SOYA AGAR

Description

Anaerobic microorganisms have long been known as constituents of the normal bacterial flora of human and animal organisms. Both their pathogenic significance in medicine and their important role in food hygiene have, however, long been underestimated. During the past few years the importance of anaerobic microorganisms as pathogenic agents responsible for infectious diseases and the role they play in the microbial spoilage of food, cosmetics and water has been better appreciated. Extremely different spectra of anaerobic organisms are of importance for the examination of food, cosmetics and in the clinical microbiology. The present medium is a slight modification of Anaerobic Blood Agar formulated by Dowell et al which is a non-selective medium for the isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of obligately anaerobic microorganisms.