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Appendix 7<br />

Preparation <strong>of</strong> <strong>culture</strong> medium - Trypticase-Yeast-Iron-Serum -33 (TYI-S-33)<br />

modified from Keister (1983). Bile <strong>and</strong> an <strong>in</strong>creased amount <strong>of</strong> L-cyste<strong>in</strong>e were the<br />

essential modifications added by Keister to the orig<strong>in</strong>al preparation.<br />

Biosate Peptone (BBL, Cockeysville, USA) 30g/L<br />

Sodium chloride (Polychem, Durban, SA) 2g/L<br />

Di-potassium hydrogen phosphate (Polychem, Durban, SA) 19/L<br />

Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (BDH Chemicals) 0.6g/L<br />

Ascorbic acid (Polychem, SA) 0.2g/L<br />

Ferric ammonium citrate, brown granules (Merck, Germany) 0.023g/L<br />

D-Glucose (Polychem, SA) 10g/L<br />

L-cyste<strong>in</strong>e monohydrochloride (Polychem, SA) 2g/L<br />

Decomplemented fetal bov<strong>in</strong>e serum (Sigma, St.Louis, USA) 100ml<br />

Bov<strong>in</strong>e bile (Sigma, St Louis, USA) 0.5g/L<br />

The pH is adjusted to 7.0-7.2 with 10M NaOH (Polychem, Durban, SA).<br />

The follow<strong>in</strong>g antibiotics were added to the medium:<br />

Penicill<strong>in</strong> (Biowhittaker,Walkersville, MD)<br />

100000 u/ml<br />

Streptomyc<strong>in</strong> (Biowhittakker, Walkersville, MD) 1000 ug/ml<br />

Amphoteric<strong>in</strong> B (Biowhittaker, Walkersville, MD) 5 ug/ml<br />

Amikac<strong>in</strong> 10ug/ml (Bristol Myers, Squibb, New Jersey, USA)<br />

Occassionally,Gehtamyc<strong>in</strong> (Bayer) 40 ug/ml was also used.<br />

The medium is sterilised by filtration through a 0,22u filter (Millipore, Bedford, MA)<br />

<strong>and</strong> stored at 4°C.<br />

Modification (Diamond, 1995; Nash TE <strong>and</strong> Conrad JT, personal communication)<br />

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