A formulation comprised of commercially available potato flakes, glucose, and agar provides a medium which is inexpensive, is easily prepared, and is particularly useful for the identification of mold fungi encountered in the clinical mycology laboratory. The inclusion of appropriate antimicrobial agents results in a selective medium effective in the isolation and identification of medically im...

Jyotsna Chandra, Thomas S. McCormick, Yoshifumi Imamura, Pranab K. Mukherjee and 4 Mahmoud A. Ghannoum* 5 Center for Medical Mycology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Department of 6 Dermatology, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106-5028. 7 Department of Dermatology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106. 8 9

1 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, 2 Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, 3 Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of ...

Celine Bernardeschi1, Gentiane Monsel1, Camille Frances2, François Bricaire1, Luc Paris3 and Eric Caumes1* 1Tropical and Infectious Diseases and 3Parasitology-Mycology Departments, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, 47-83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, FR-75013 Paris, and 2Department of Dermatology, Hôpital Tenon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France. *E-mail: [email protected] Accep...

1 Institut Pasteur, Malaria Biology and Genetics Unit, Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Paris, France, 2 Institut Cochin, Laboratory Barriers and Pathogens, INSERM U-1016, CNRS UMR-8104, University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France, 3 Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, ...