Incubation of fungal cultures: How long is long enough?

Mycoses

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bosshard, Philipp P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Culture; Fungal cultures; Fungal diagnostics; Incubation; Mycological cultures

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHAETOMIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DERMATOPHYTE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; INCUBATION TIME; MICROSPORUM; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCOPULARIOPSIS; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; YEAST; ZYGOMYCETES;

FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOLOGY; MYCOSES; TIME FACTORS;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 80052822118     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2010.01977.x     Document Type: Article

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