New chromogenic agar medium for the identification of Candida spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 3622-3627

  Cooke, Venitia M ^a   Miles, R J ^a   Price, R G ^a   Midgley, G ^a   Khamri, W ^a   Richardson, A C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMOGENICS; HYDROLYSIS; SUBSTRATES; YEAST;

MICROBIAL STRAINS;

MICROORGANISMS;

GLUCOSAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSAMINIDASE; GLUCOSE;

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; YEAST;

ACCURACY; AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEAT; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE;

AGAR; CANDIDA; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUCOSAMINE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII;

EID: 0036306109     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.7.3622-3627.2002     Document Type: Article

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