Tryptic Soy Agar/W Streptomycin Sulfate
Catalog No: DCP-TSAPSS
Features
Type of Specimen: food and dairy samples, water samples
Concentration: 50 µg/mL
Size:100 mm
Storage: Keep away from light at 4°C
Shipping Condition: Blue ice
Appearance: Light yellow colored clear to slightly opalescent
Sterile
Shelf Life: 4 weeks
*All agar plates are manufactured with ultrapure water, deionized and demineralized to minimize ionic and organic contaminants. The premium ISO certified agar solution is sterilized by a full cycle of autoclaving. Each 100mm plate has 20mL of agar medium in premium plastic dish
Description
Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA) is a versatile, nutrient-rich medium widely used for the cultivation, isolation, and enumeration of a broad range of microorganisms, including both fastidious and non-fastidious species. Its balanced formulation-featuring tryptone and soy peptone-delivers essential amino acids, peptides, vitamins, and minerals, while glucose provides an easily metabolized carbohydrate source. Phosphate ensures optimal pH stability, and sodium chloride maintains osmotic equilibrium.
The addition of streptomycin sulfate at 50 µg/mL transforms TSA into a selective medium, effectively inhibiting the growth of streptomycin-sensitive bacteria. This selective property is especially valuable for isolating and propagating streptomycin-resistant strains, screening for resistance, or suppressing background flora in mixed cultures. Such selectivity is particularly useful in clinical, food, water, and environmental microbiology, as well as in research applications involving antibiotic susceptibility testing and genetic studies.
TSA can also be further enriched with blood or other additives to support the growth of more fastidious organisms. Its reliability and flexibility make it a staple in microbiological laboratories for routine cultivation, maintenance, and quality control of microbial cultures.
Applications
- Selective isolation and screening of streptomycin-resistant bacteria
- Suppression of streptomycin-sensitive background flora in mixed cultures
- Microbiological analysis of clinical, food, dairy, and water samples
- Teaching, demonstration, and research in microbiology
- Antibiotic susceptibility and resistance studies
Streptomycin Sulfate (50 µg/mL) Tryptic Soy Agar Plates offer a robust and reliable platform for selective microbial cultivation, combining the broad utility of TSA with the targeted selectivity of streptomycin sulfate. These plates are essential for laboratories working with antibiotic-resistant organisms or requiring dependable, general-purpose culture media with selective properties.
* This product is manufactured under ISO 13485-certified and CE-approved facilities (Suppliers of DiagnoCine Precision). All final packaging, quality assurance, and testing are done at the DiagnoCine R&D and Quality Testing Center. All specific customization requests and assembly were accomplished at DiagnoCine Precision in Totowa, New Jersey, USA
