Tryptic Soy Broth is a highly nutritive and very versatile medium used for the cultivation of fastidious and non-fastidious microorganisms and used frequently in many procedures of diagnostic research or microbiology.
The medium promotes abundant growth of fastidious microorganisms without the necessity of adding serum and other materials
Other uses include: Urine cultures, blood cultures, cultivation of cerebrospinal fluid, antibiotic sensitivity testing, cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms, vibrios, and Bacteroides, preparation of bacterial antigens, examination of solid foods, tests for bile solubility, qualitative examination of yeasts and molds, with blood the medium becomes richer so that it can cultivate a wider variety of microorganisms.
This broth is used for the isolation and sensitivity testing of all types of pathogens, and for the production of antigens for agglutination and serological tests.