title: Performance of five agar media for recovery of fungi from isolator blood cultures.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pathology, Section of Clinical Microbiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. procopg@cesmtp.ccf.org
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Procop
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Cockerill
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Vetter
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Harmsen
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D000362:Agar