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Four cases of Candida albicans infections with isolates developing pink colonies on CHROMagar Candida plates
Author(s) -
Saunte D. M.,
Klingspor L.,
Jalal S.,
Arnau J.,
Arendrup M. C.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
mycoses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.13
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1439-0507
pISSN - 0933-7407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2005.01146.x
Subject(s) - candida albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , corpus albicans , yeast , genetics
Summary Candida albicans , the most commonly isolated yeast species, is typically identified by its green colony‐colour on CHROMagar Candida plates. We here report four cases of Candida albicans infections, in which the initial identification was non‐ albicans isolates due to a clear pink colour of the colonies on CHROMagar Candida plates. However, classical phenotypic criteria, biochemical assimilation pattern and molecular characterisation identified all four isolates as C. albicans isolates.