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The TSI slant is a test tube that contains agar, a pH-sensitive dye , 1% lactose, 1% sucrose, 0.1% glucose, [2] and sodium thiosulfate and ferrous sulfate or ferrous ammonium sulfate. All of these ingredients are mixed together, heated to sterility, and allowed to solidify in the test tube at a slanted angle.
The urease agar slant is used to measure an organism’s ability to produce urease, an enzyme capable to digesting urea in carbon dioxide and ammonia through hydrolysis. Because ammonia is alkaline, the media contains phenol red, an indicator that changes from orange to pink when a pH increases above 8.1.
Inoculation of a TSI slant shows an alkaline slant and acidic, but with no gas, or H 2 S production. Following incubation on SIM, the culture appears nonmotile with no H 2 S production. Addition of Kovac's reagent to the SIM tube following growth typically indicates no indole formation (serotypes 2, 7, and 8 produce indole [5]).
A TSI slant is often used to distinguish nonfermenting Pseudomonas species from enteric pathogens in faecal specimens. [citation needed] When P. aeruginosa is isolated from a normally sterile site (blood, bone, deep collections), it is generally considered dangerous, and almost always requires treatment.
Simmons’ agar can be bought from suppliers as ready-made powders or slants. A slant is prepared by adding the heated agar to a test tube and allowing it to solidify at a slanted angle. To transfer cells from a sample to the agar, a sterilized needle is used to select a distinct colony from the sample and to streak across the agar surface, as ...
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Cystine tryptic agar (CTA), also known as cystine trypticase agar, [1] [2] is a growth medium used for the identification of microorganisms. [3]It can be used to determine if organisms can ferment various carbohydrates, including maltose, lactose, and sucrose.
TSI test is a determinitive test used when dealing with Gram neg. Rods. TSI stands for triple sugar iron, and is in the form of a test tube, with a slant agar. The three sugars used in a TSI test are lactose, glucose and sucrose. The concentrations of these sugars are; lactose 1%, Sucrose 1%, Glucose .1%.