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THE DETECTION OP CANDIDA ALBICANS.
Author(s) -
CHRISTIE E.,
MORTON MARY M.
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1953.tb01832.x
Subject(s) - candida albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , agglutination (biology) , corpus albicans , agar , methylene blue , agar plate , fermentation , medicine , biology , bacteria , food science , immunology , biochemistry , antigen , genetics , photocatalysis , catalysis
SUMMARY 1. A method of using guinea‐pigs and mice to detect pathogenicity in strains of C. albicans is described. 2. Agglutination of C. albicans by the slide method has been shown to be reliable. 3. Seventy‐eight strains of yeast‐like organisms have been submitted to a number of tests to decide upon a method of identifying C. albicans. The tests were fermentation reactions, formation of hyphae and chlamydospores in corn‐meal extract, animal pathogenicity tests, slide agglutination with an absorbed anti‐serum and colony appearance on eosin‐methylene blue agar. No single test was completely accurate. 4. Eosin‐methylene blue agar is a valuable medium for isolating and detecting C. albicans. 5. Slide agglutination gives the smallest number of errors where a reasonably rapid decision has to be made.