RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDA-ALBICANS BY USING ALBICANS-ID AND FLUOROPLATE-AGAR PLATES

Authors
ROUSSELLE P FREYDIERE AM COUILLEROT PJ DEMONTCLOS H GILLE Y
Citation
P. Rousselle et al., RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDA-ALBICANS BY USING ALBICANS-ID AND FLUOROPLATE-AGAR PLATES, Journal of clinical microbiology, 32(12), 1994, pp. 3034-3036
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
32
Issue
12
Year of publication
1994
Pages
3034 - 3036
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1994)32:12<3034:RIOCBU>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Two commercially available agar media, Albicans ID and Fluoroplate, th at use a chromogenic or a fluorogenic substrate for the detection and identification of Candida albicans were evaluated. From 1,006 clinical samples containing 723 yeast strains, 352 C. albicans strains were de tected with either of the two media. The sensitivity of each of the tw o media was 93.8% and the specificity was 98.6%, with five false-posit ive reactions for Candida tropicalis and no false-negative reactions.