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Tag: Fungal Culture Media

link to Czapek Dox Agar: Principle, Composition, Colony Characteristics

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...

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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...

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Bird Seed Agar: Composition, Uses

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...

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link to Sabouraud Agar (SDA): Composition, Uses, Colony Morphology

Sabouraud Agar (SDA): Composition, Uses, Colony Morphology

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...

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link to Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA): Principle, Composition, Colony Characteristics

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...

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Common Fungal Culture Media: Their Uses

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...

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