DUBOS BROTH BASE

Tuberculosis remains a major global public health problem worldwide. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis in man, is carried in airborne particles known as droplet nuclei that are generated when patients with pulmonary tuberculosis cough. Infections occur when a susceptible person inhales the droplet nuclei containing the bacterium. Dubos Broth is formulated as per Dubos, et al, and is a modification of the medium originally formulated by Dubos and Davis and Dubos and Middlebrook.

for cultivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other Mycobacterium species