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    Sabouraud agar or Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) is a type of agar growth medium containing peptones. It is used to cultivate dermatophytes and other types...
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    specific types of fungi. These agars include but are not limited to malt extract agar and sabouraud agar. Malt extract agar is more acidic than PDA and is...
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    ectomycorrhizal fungi. Chromogenic agars can distinguish some major types of fungal infection. Bottom view of a Sabouraud agar plate with a colony of Trichophyton...
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    low pH and a rather high concentration of sugar. This medium, called Sabouraud agar is named after him. With Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938) and Henri...
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    patient swab or biopsy is used to inoculate Sabouraud agar or brain heart infusion agar. Sabouraud agar is incubated at room temperature for macroscopic...
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    pneumophila. Baird-Parker agar is for gram-positive staphylococci. Sabouraud agar is selective to certain fungi due to its low pH (5.6) and high glucose...
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    until 7 to 10 days after inoculation. In primary outgrowth on Sabouraud dextrose agar with cycloheximide and antibacterials, contaminating organisms...
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    yeast states which produce orange to red colonies when grown on Sabouraud's dextrose agar (SDA). The colour is the result of pigments that the yeast creates...
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    having a positive germ tube test is strongly indicative of Candida albicans. Agar plate culture of C. albicans Germ tubes of Candida albicans Gram stain of...
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  • of the species. The fungi tend to grow well at 25 degrees Celsius on Sabouraud agar within a few days to a few weeks. In the culture, characteristic septate...
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