Comparison among tomato juice agar with other three media for differentiation of Candida dubliniensis from Candida albicans
Keywords:
Candida dubliniensis, Tomato juice agar, Phenotypic identificationAbstract
The purpose of the present study is to compare the tomato juice agar, a well known medium employed to observe ascospore formation, with niger seed agar, casein agar and sunflower seed agar, applied to a differentiation between C. dubliniensis and C. albicans. After 48 hours of incubation at 30 ºC all 26 (100%) C. dubliniensis isolates tested produced chlamydospores on tomato juice agar as well as in the other three media evaluated. However, when we inoculated all media with C. albicans, the absence of chlamydospores became resulting in the following percents: tomato juice agar (92.47%), niger seed agar (96.7%), casein agar (91.39%), and sunflower seed agar (96.7%). These results indicate that tomato juice agar is another medium which can also be used in the first phenotypic differentiation between C. dubliniensis and C. albicans.Downloads
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2006-06-01
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Alves, S. H., Loreto, Érico S. de, Linares, C. E., Silveira, C. P., Scheid, L. A., Pereira, D. I. B., & Santuario, J. M. (2006). Comparison among tomato juice agar with other three media for differentiation of Candida dubliniensis from Candida albicans . Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo, 48(3), 119-121. https://www.revistas.usp.br/rimtsp/article/view/30989