The TSI slant is a test tube that contains agar, a pH-sensitive dye (phenol red), 1% lactose, 1% sucrose, 0.1% glucose, as well as sodium thiosulfate and ferrous sulfate or ferrous ammonium sulfate.
All of these ingredients are mixed together and allowed to solidify in the test tube at a slanted angle. The slanted shape of this medium provides an array of surfaces that are either exposed to oxygen-containing air in varying degrees (an aerobic environment) or not exposed to air (an anaerobic environment).
TSI agar medium was developed based on Kligler's iron agar, which had been used for the determination of lactose fermentative bacteria, by addition of sucrose to be able to detect sucrose fermentative bacteria also.
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