Performance of five agar media for recovery of fungi from isolator blood cultures.
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
دوره 38 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000