CHROMagar Candida Medium for Direct Susceptibility Testing of Yeast from Blood Cultures

CHROMagar Candida medium for direct susceptibility testing of yeast from blood cultures.

An evaluation was performed on 95 blood cultures positive for Candida spp. to determine the correlation of direct susceptibility testing of fluconazole versus both standardized disk diffusion and MIC methods. For direct testing, an aliquot taken from BD BACTEC Plus and/or BD BACTEC Lytic/10 bottles (Becton Dickinson [BD], Sparks, MD) positive by gram stain for yeast was subcultured to CHROMagar...

Direct isolation of Candida spp. from blood cultures on the chromogenic medium CHROMagar Candida.

CHROMagar Candida is a selective and differential chromogenic medium that has been shown to be useful for identification of Candida albicans, Candida krusei, Candida tropicalis, and perhaps Candida glabrata. Colony morphology and color have been well defined when CHROMagar Candida has been used to isolate yeast directly from clinical specimens, including stool, urine, respiratory, vaginal, orop...

Direct antifungal susceptibility testing of positive Candida blood cultures by sensititre YeastOne.

Invasive candidiasis is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Differences in the virulence and susceptibility of the various Candida spp. to antifungal drugs make the identification and rapid MIC determination very important for clinical management. The aim of this study was to improve the turnaround time (TAT) for antimicrobial test generation by susceptibility testing directly from th...

Erratum: Evaluation of CHROMagar Candida, VITEK2 YST and VITEK® MS for identification of Candida strains isolated from blood cultures.

Evaluation of CHROMagar Candida, VITEK2 YST and VITEK® MS for identification of Candida strains isolated from blood cultures

C is an increasingly common problem in hospitalized patients, especially among immunocompromised patients. C. albicans is the predominant cause of candidemia, with a crude mortality rate of approximately 40% [1-5]. However, non-albicans Candida species such as C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata, C. krusei and C. tropicalis are emerging as opportunistic pathogens [2]. C. parapsilosis is the second mos...