Czapek Dox Agar: Principle, Composition, Colony Characteristics
Czapek medium is also called Czapek’s agar (CZA) or Czapek-Dox medium. Czapek agar is named after the Friedrich Johann Franz Czapek. He invented this medium and was later modified by Arthur Wayland...
Dermatophyte Test Medium (DTM): Composition, Preparation, Uses
Dermatophyte Test Medium (DTM) is a specialized selective and differential medium used in medical mycology to differentiate dermatophytes (ringworm) from other fungi. Taplin and colleagues developed...
Bird Seed Agar, also known as Staib medium, is a selective and differential medium for isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from clinical specimens and differentiation of it from other Cryptococcus...
Sabouraud Agar or Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) is a selective medium primarily used for the isolation of dermatophytes. Other fungi, yeasts, and filamentous bacteria such as Nocardia can also...
Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA): Principle, Composition, Colony Characteristics
Potato dextrose agar (PDA) is a general-purpose basal medium for identifying, cultivating and enumerating yeast and molds in foods and dairy products. It may also be used to cultivate yeasts and...
Two 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 as brain...
