Ground red hot pepper agar in the isolation and presumptive identification of Cryptococcus neoformans

Mycoses

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 384-388

  Stepanovic S ^a,b   Vukovic D ^a   Radonjic I ^a   Dimitrijevic V ^a   Svabic Vlahovic M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Ground hot pepper agar; Guizotia abyssinica creatinine agar; Identification; Isolation; Selective isolation medium

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CREATININE;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PEPPER; PIGEON; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGAR; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CAPSICUM; COLUMBIDAE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIA; FECES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS; COLUMBA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GUIZOTIA ABYSSINICA;

EID: 0036435797     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2002.00773.x     Document Type: Article

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