Tinea cruris: diagnostic confusion due to isolation of Candida albicans alone.
The diagnostic importance of the isolation of Candida albicans from a skin lesion is often uncertain. In a 68-year-old man from whose lesions only C. albicans was originally isolated Trichophyton rubrum and Epidermophyton floccosum were also isolated when the growth of the yeast was inhibited in a selective medium. The use of this selective medium, casamino acids erythritol albumin agar, ensures the proper interpretation of the significance of the presence of C. albicans in skin lesions.
D000368:Aged; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000382:microbiology*; D003470:Culture Media; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004821:Epidermophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014005:Tinea / Q000382:microbiology*; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification
D003470:Culture Media