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Use of chromogenic medium in the isolation of yeasts from clinical specimens
2 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
Over a 1 year period 3296 specimens submitted for fungal culture were plated onto routine mycological media (RM) and CHROMagar Candida (CaC) to evaluate the capability of CaC to improve on RM. With RM, cultures producing single yeast isolates were identified from 802 specimens. CaC produced similar results, with 76 % agreement. Of 761 specimens that yielded a single Candida species by RM, 615 (81 %) produced one...
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