Fungal Culture of Clinical Samples: Introduction, Principle, Clinical Significance, and Keynotes

Body fluid and sputum for culture

Introduction Fungal culture is the gold standard method for the detection and identification of pathogenic fungi in clinical microbiology. It is essential for diagnosing superficial, subcutaneous, and systemic mycoses. Clinical specimens such as blood, sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), urine, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), skin scrapings, nail …

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Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA): Introduction, Principle, Composition, Preparation, Testing Procedure, Result-Interpretation, Colony Characteristics, Uses, Keynotes, and SDA Footages

Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA): Introduction, Principle, Composition, Preparation,Testing Procedure, Result-Interpretation, Colony Characteristics, Uses, Keynotes and SDA Footages

Introduction of Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) is a common fungal culture medium and  Sabouraud is the surname of creator Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud a French physician born in Nantes. He formulated SDA in 1892 for culturing dermatophytes. SDA  is the most common …

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Atlas of Fungi: Introduction, List of Contents, and Description

Atlas of Fungi: Introduction, List of Contents, and Description

Introduction to Atlas of Fungi The name ‘ Atlas of Fungi’ is given even due to the vast spectrum of mycology but puny collection and another thing are that only an epic center collection of author authentical performance. So, please if you have benefited from …

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Germ Tube Test: Introduction, Principle, Procedure, Result Interpretation, and Keynotes

Germ Tube Test: Introduction, Principle, Procedure, Result Interpretation and Keynotes

Introduction of Germ Tube The Germ Tube Test procedure is used for the presumptive identification of Candida species. The culture of Candida species is treated with normal human pooled serum or sheep or rabbit or fetal calf serum and incubated at 37°C for 2-4 hours. A drop of suspension …

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