Diamond Medium For Trichomonas Vaginalis

                                                            Trichomonas Vaginalis

                               

                              

Culture Of Trichomonas Vaginalis

Diamond Medium

L.S. Diamond developed the Trypticase-Yeast extract-Maltose (TYM) medium in 1957, which became the standard culture medium for the isolation and axenic cultivation of Trichomonas vaginalis

Diamond’s medium is essentially a trypticase/peptone-based enriched medium, supplemented with components that support the growth of T. vaginalis, including:

• Peptones / trypticase
• Yeast extract
• Serum
• Glucose
• Appropriate salts and buffering components
• Antibiotics, in some formulations, to suppress bacterial contaminants

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