Tween 40-based precipitate production observed on modified chromogenic agar and development of biological identification kit for Malassezia species

Medical Mycology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-231

  Kaneko, Takamasa ^a,b   Makimura, Koichi ^b   Sugita, Takashi ^c   Yamaguchi, Hideyo ^b  

^a KANTO CHEMICAL CO INC   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromogenic agar; Culture; Identification; Malassezia

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CATALASE; CHROMOGENIC SUBSTRATE; CREMOPHOR; ESCULIN; FUNGAL DNA; GLUCOSE; POLYSORBATE 40; POLYSORBATE 60;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME MECHANISM; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA DERMATIS; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA JAPONICA; MALASSEZIA OBTUSA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALASSEZIA RESTRICTA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TORULOPSIDALES;

AGAR; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; POLYSORBATES; PRECIPITATION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC;

FUNGI; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA DERMATIS; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA JAPONICA; MALASSEZIA OBTUSA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALASSEZIA RESTRICTA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS; MITOSPORIC SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 33646829281     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780500354313     Document Type: Article

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