2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01872.x
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Efficacy of Chromogenic Candida Agar for isolation and presumptive identification of pathogenic yeast species

Abstract: Chromogenic Candida Agar is a novel differential culture medium that is claimed to facilitate isolation and identification of Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis and Candida krusei. The performance of this medium was evaluated for presumptive identification of 521 yeast strains, representing 23 different species, for detection of specimens containing yeast mixtures, and for direct isolation of yeast from blood cultures. All yeasts grew well on the medium following a 48-h incubation period at 37 degrees C, and… Show more

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“…This method can be advantageous, since it enables presumptive identification of yeasts without isolation of colonies from a primary specimen plate. Additionally, chromogenic medium can aid in the identification of mixed-yeast cultures (23,24). Direct plating of blood cultures containing yeast to chromogenic medium demonstrated no effect on the color of resulting colonies, suggesting that this method may be useful for the identification of yeast in positive blood cultures (23).…”
Section: Current Methods For the Identification Of Yeasts And Yeast-lmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This method can be advantageous, since it enables presumptive identification of yeasts without isolation of colonies from a primary specimen plate. Additionally, chromogenic medium can aid in the identification of mixed-yeast cultures (23,24). Direct plating of blood cultures containing yeast to chromogenic medium demonstrated no effect on the color of resulting colonies, suggesting that this method may be useful for the identification of yeast in positive blood cultures (23).…”
Section: Current Methods For the Identification Of Yeasts And Yeast-lmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, these media generally are capable of discriminating a limited number of yeasts (e.g., C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. krusei, C. tropicalis, and Saccharomyces). Second, multiple species of yeasts can develop similar colors on these media, which can affect specificity (23,24).…”
Section: Current Methods For the Identification Of Yeasts And Yeast-lmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dichas levaduras se aislaron de diferentes muestras de vigilancia clínica: orofaringe, jugo gástrico, tráquea, orina e hisopado rectal. Una vez en el laboratorio, cada muestra se sembró en el medio cromógeno Brilliance™ Candida Agar (BCA), (Oxoid, UK); al cabo de 24 a 48 horas se hizo la lectura del cultivo y se clasificó el crecimiento de acuerdo con el color de las colonias, según el esquema de identificación de especies establecido por el fabricante del medio: verde: C. albicans/dubliniensis; azul: C. tropicalis; café/beis: C. glabrata, C. kefyr, complejo C. parapsilosis, C. lusitaniae; morado: C. krusei, aunque el fabricante declara en el inserto del producto que esta última especie puede en ocasiones dar colonias de color café/beis (11,21). A cada uno de los aislamientos obtenidos del agar cromógeno se le hizo la prueba del tubo germinal; para ello se inocularon directamente dos colonias del medio cromógeno en 300 μL de suero humano que se incubó a 37 °C por 2 horas; se seleccionaron este medio y dicho tiempo de incubación debido a su mejor relación entre sensibilidad y especificidad (16).…”
Section: Materiales Y Métodosunclassified
“…Con la inclusión de nuevos sustratos en la siguiente generación de medios se apuntó a identificar especies diferentes de C. albicans, y con ellos se ha logrado un éxito relativo en la identificación de especies como C. krusei y C. tropicalis (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Sin embargo, especies frecuentes como C. glabrata y C. parapsilosis siguen siendo difíciles de identificar satisfactoriamente con estos medios (5,7,8,11,12). Por otra parte, se ha demostrado que la prueba del tubo germinal (PTG), usada por décadas para identificar C. albicans, es sencilla, rápida, económica y eficaz para la determinación presuntiva de dicha especie (13)(14)(15)(16)(17).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…After inoculation, the Petri plates were incubated for 24-48 h at 37°C (Sivakumar et al, 2009;Baveja, 2010). All the sixty isolates in this study were subjected to preliminary identification was done based on CHROMagar Candida (Ghelardi et al, 2008;Marsh and Martin, 2009;Nadeem et al, 2010).…”
Section: Yeast Collection and Cultural Charactersmentioning
confidence: 99%