USE OF MUELLER-HINTON BROTH AND AGAR IN THE GERM TUBE TEST

Candida albicans is often isolated from clinical samples, thus its presumptive differentiation from other species of the same genus can be based on its ability to form the germ tube in human serum. Nevertheless, there are two other species that share this characteristic: C. dubliniensis and C. afric...

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Main Authors: Antonella Souza Mattei, Sydney Hartz Alves, Cecília Bittencourt Severo, Luciana da Silva Guazzelli, Flávio de Mattos Oliveira, Luiz Carlos Severo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-12-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652014000600483&lng=en&tlng=en