Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) is a selective medium primarily used for the isolation of dermatophytes, other fungi and yeasts but can also grow filamentous bacteria such as Nocardia. The acidic pH of this medium (pH about […]
This post was most recently updated on May 17th, 2015The lactophenol cotton blue (LPCB) wet mount preparation is the most widely used method of staining and observing fungi and is simple to prepare. The preparation […]
This post was most recently updated on August 3rd, 2019Two general types of culture media are essential to ensure the primary recovery of all clinically significant fungi from clinical specimens. One medium should be non-selective (such […]
This post was most recently updated on May 21st, 2016If you observe a probable fungus in the culture plate, colony characteristics are first assessed to determine the broad group of the isolate. Once the initial observations are […]
This post was most recently updated on October 29th, 2018Sporotrichosis is an an chronic infection of subcutaneous tissues caused by a fungus called Sporothrix schenckii, which is a dimorphic fungus. Human acquire sporotrichosis infection through […]
This post was most recently updated on May 2nd, 2019Fungi can be broadly classified into two groups; yeasts and molds. Yeasts are single-celled organisms that reproduce by budding but molds grow as filaments like structure. Many […]
This post was most recently updated on September 27th, 2019 According to the latest blog posts in the website of American society of Microbiology, scientists have sequenced the genome of the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii. This […]
This post was most recently updated on February 6th, 2017 Which of the following fungi is most likely to be found within reticuloendothelial cells. a. Histoplasma capsulatum b. Sporothrix schenckii c. Cryptococcus neoformans d. Candida […]
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