[Evaluation of Chromalbicans Agar for presumptive identification of Candida albicans].
The utility of Chromalbicans Agar (Biolife Italiana, Milano, Italy) was evaluated with 723 clinical isolates and type culture collection strains from different genera including Candida, Cryptococcus, Pichia, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, Trichosporon y Zygosaccharomyces. Presumptive identification was confirmed by germ tube test and carbohydrate assimilation on API-ATB ID 32C (bioMerieux, France). Growth on Chromalbicans Agar was very useful for the presumptive identification of C. albicans isolates, and sensitivity and specificity values were significantly high (>97%), since a very low number of isolates were found to be false negative or false positive.
Departamento de Microbiología, ACIA, Apdo. Postal 10178, 08080-Barcelona, España. acarrillo17@terra.es
A J
AJ
Carrillo-Muñoz
G
G
Quindós
C D
CD
Cárdenes
R
R
Alonso-Vargas
P
P
Arévalo
S
S
Brió
L
L
Madariaga