Presumptive identification of Candida species other than C. albicans, C. krusei, and C. tropicalis with the chromogenic medium CHROMagar Candida 英文参考文献.docVIP

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials BioMedCentral Research Open Access Presumptive identification of Candida species other than C. albicans, C. krusei, and C. tropicalis with the chromogenic medium CHROMagar Candida Duane R Hospenthal*1, Miriam L Beckius2, Karon L Floyd2, Lynn L Horvath1,2 and Clinton K Murray1 Address: 1Department of Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA and 2Department of Clinical Investigation, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA Email: Duane R Hospenthal* - duane.hospenthal@; Miriam L Beckius - miriam.beckius@; Karon L Floyd - karon.floyd@; Lynn L Horvath - lynn.horvath@; Clinton K Murray - clinton.murray@ * Corresponding author Published: 03 January 2006 Received: 20 October 2005 Accepted: 03 January 2006 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2006, 5:1 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-5-1 This article is available from: /content/5/1/1 ? 2006 Hospenthal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: CHROMagar Candida (CaC) is increasingly being reported as a medium used to differentiate Candida albicans from non-albicans Candida (NAC) species. Rapid identification of NAC can assist the clinician in selecting appropriate antifungal therapy. CaC is a differential chromogenic medium designed to identify C. albicans, C. krusei, and C. tropicalis based on colony color and morphology. Some reports have proposed that CaC can also reliably identify C. dubliniensis and C. glabrata. Methods: We evaluated the usefulness of CaC in the identification of C. dubliniensis, C. famata, C. firmetaria, C. glabrata, C. guilliermondii, C. inconspicua, C. kefyr, C. lipolytica, C. lusitaniae, C. norvege