Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology


Year
: 2000  |  Volume : 43  |  Issue : 4  |  Page : 429--31

Identification of yeasts from clinical specimens by oxidase test.


S Kumar, B S Arora, M D Mathur 
 Microbiology Department, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

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S Kumar
Microbiology Department, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

A total of 100 yeasts and yeast like fungi isolates from clinical specimens were negative for oxidase production on Sabouraud dextrose agar. When grown on Columbia agar, chocolate agar, tryptose agar, Mueller-Hinton agar, brain heart infusion and a medium resembling Sabouraud�SQ�s dextrose agar but with starch instead of dextrose, all the isolate of Candida albicans (55), C. guilliermondii (6), C. parapsilosis (14), C. tropicalis (6), C. pseudotropicalis (6) and Crytococcus neoformans (2) were positive for oxidase producation. Torulopsis glabrata (2), Saccharomyces cervisiae (2) and two out of seven isolates of C. krusei were negative for oxidase test.


How to cite this article:
Kumar S, Arora B, Mathur M. Identification of yeasts from clinical specimens by oxidase test. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 2000;43:429-31


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Kumar S, Arora B, Mathur M. Identification of yeasts from clinical specimens by oxidase test. Indian J Pathol Microbiol [serial online] 2000 [cited 2023 Sep 26 ];43:429-31
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