title: Comparison of Sabouraud dextrose and Pagano-Levin agar media for detection and isolation of yeasts from oral samples.
abstract: The sensitivities of Sabouraud dextrose agar and modified Pagano-Levin agar for the primary isolation of yeasts and the recovery of multiple yeast species from single clinical samples were compared by using oral-rinse samples. Although there was a highly significant positive correlation between the numbers of yeasts recovered from both media, modified Pagano-Levin agar was far superior in detecting multiple yeast species in a single sample. Of 150 oral samples containing yeasts, 23 (15.3%) contained more than one yeast species. The most frequent combination of different yeasts was Candida albicans and Torulopsis glabrata.
mesh_terms: D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003470:Culture Media; D006801:Humans; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015003:Yeasts / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media