Performance of five agar media for recovery of fungi from isolator blood cultures.
We studied the recovery of 1,270 fungal isolates from 176,144 Isolator blood cultures (0.72% positive) on bacterial and fungal media, under routine and differing incubation conditions. Except with Histoplasma capsulatum, chocolate agar incubated for only 3 days proved to be an excellent medium for the recovery of fungi from the Isolator system.
Procop
G W
GW
Department of Clinical Pathology, Section of Clinical Microbiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. procopg@cesmtp.ccf.org
Cockerill
F R
FR
Vetter
E A
EA
Harmsen
W S
WS
Hughes
J G
JG
Roberts
G D
GD
D000362:Agar; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D002175:Candida / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003470:Culture Media; D006658:Histoplasma / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans
D003470:Culture Media; D000362:Agar