Performance of five agar media for recovery of fungi from isolator blood cultures

Authors
Procop, GW Cockerill, FR Vetter, EA Harmsen, WS Hughes, JG Roberts, GD
Citation
Gw. Procop et al., Performance of five agar media for recovery of fungi from isolator blood cultures, J CLIN MICR, 38(10), 2000, pp. 3827-3829
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00951137 → ACNP
Volume
38
Issue
10
Year of publication
2000
Pages
3827 - 3829
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(200010)38:10<3827:POFAMF>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We studied the recovery of 1,270 fungal isolates from 176,144 Isolator bloo d cultures (0.72% positive) on bacterial and fungal media, under routine an d differing incubation conditions. Except with Histoplasma capsulatum, choc olate agar incubated for only 3 days proved to be an excellent medium for t he recovery of fungi from the Isolator system.