title: A new many-purpose culture medium for chemotherapeutic and microbiologic studies.
abstract: A new semisynthetic culture medium was prepared and found to serve many useful purposes in chemotherapeutical research and also in diagnostic microbiology. It contains 0.5% peptone, 0.1% glucose and is supplemented with 10% 10% McIlvaine's buffer. The medium is pH-stable and, being almost colorless, it is suitable for turbidimetric studies and enzymatic experiments which involve color-changes. For in vitro chemotherapeutic experimental studies it is a useful medium and, in certain cases, it behaves like an almost antagonist-free medium. Used as broth or in agar-base, it supports the growth of all of the 280 clinically important strains studied, including aerobic bacteria, Candida and Trichophyton. It promotes the germ tube formation of C. albicans and C. stellatoidea.
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000254:growth & development; D003470:Culture Media / Q000032:analysis; D008828:Microbiological Techniques
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media