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Effective levels of tetanus toxin can be made in a production medium totally lacking both animal (e.g., brain heart infusion) and dairy proteins or digests (e.g., casein hydrolysates).

Demain AL, Gerson DF, Fang A

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ademain@drew.edu

We have developed a fermentation medium for Clostridium tetani that results in the formation of tetanus toxin and contains no meat (e.g., beef heart infusion) or dairy (e.g., casein digest) products, thus obviating the problem of possible prion diseases. Particular preparations of hydrolyzed soy proteins, especially Quest Hy-Soy, have been found to replace both the meat extract and casein digest components of traditional tetanus toxin production media and to yield even higher toxin titers. The comparison of the traditional versus the new medium has been carried out repeatedly by us and the superiority of our medium has been consistently observed. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such a medium has been devised.

Published 15 November 2005 in Vaccine, 23(46): 5420-3.
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