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After cooling, the sterile horse serum and glucose are added aseptically. The medium is prepared by dissolving the tryptone-soya broth powder in the water and auto-claving at 115☌ for 15 min. Serum-dextrose broth (SDB): tryptone-soya broth (Oxoid), 30 g distilled water, 1000 ml sterile horse serum (inactivated at 56☌ for 30 min), 50 or 100 ml D-glucose (25%, w/v, solution autoclaved at 105☌ for 20 min), 40 ml. The pH of the solution is adjusted with HCl to 2–3.ġ. These components are dissolved in 1 liter of double distilled water. The trace element solution SLA has the following composition: FeCl 2∙4H 2O, 1.8 g CoCl 2♶H 2O, 250 mg NiCl 2∙6H 2O, 10 mg CuCl 2∙5H 2O, 10 mg MnCl 2∙4H 2O, 70 mg ZnCl 2, 100 mg H 3BO 3, 500 mg Na 2MoO 4∙2H 2O,30mg and Na 2SeO 3♵H 2O, 10 mg.

Vitamin solution VA contains in 100 ml of double distilled water: biotin, 10 mg niacin amide, 35 mg thiamine dichloride, 30 mg p-aminobenzoic acid, 20 mg pyridoxal hydrochloride, 10 mg calcium pantothenate, 10 mg and vitamin B 12, 5 mg. Organic carbon sources (routinely 10 mM sodium malate, sodium succinate, sodium pyruvate, or sodium acetate) and, for oxygen-sensitive strains, 0.5 g sodium ascorbate or 0.25 g thioglycolate are added separately.

AT medium contains (g/l): KH 2PO 4, 1.0 MgCl 2♶H 2O, 0.5 CaCl 2♲H 2O, 0.1 NH 4Cl, 1.0 NaHCO 3, 3.0 Na 2SO 4, 0.7 NaCl, 1.0 sulfate-free trace element solution SLA (Imhoff and Trüper, 1977 Imhoff, 1992), 1 ml and vitamin solution VA (Im-hoff and Trüper, 1977 1992), 1 ml.
