Comparison of Albicans ID2® agar plate with the germ tube for presumptive identification of Candida albicans

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 181-185

  Cardenes C D ^a   Carrillo, A J ^b   Arias, A ^a   Rodriguez Alvarez C ^a   Torres Lana, A ^a,c   Sierra, A ^a,c   Arevalo M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b Associacio Catalana d'Intelligencia Artificial   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Albicans ID2 ; API ID 32C ; Candida albicans; Chromogenic medium; Germ tube test; Yeast; Yeast differentiation and identification

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; YEAST;

AGAR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036199381     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(01)00346-7     Document Type: Article

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