Performance of Five Agar Media for Recovery of Fungi from Isolator Blood Cultures

Overview

Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2000 Oct 4

PMID 11015411

Citations 4

Authors

G W Procop

F R Cockerill 3rd

E A Vetter

W S Harmsen

J G Hughes

G D Roberts

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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.

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