Chromogenic Media BBL™ CHROMagar™ Candida
BBL™ CHROMagar™ Candida
Features
BBL™ CHROMagar™ Candida
Available as prepared plated media in packs of 20
BBL™ CHROMagar™ Candida is a nutritive medium for isolating and differentiating yeasts from primary culture of clinical specimens. BBL CHROMagar Candida has gained wide acceptance through the years by many leading mycologists.
Enjoy the following features and benefits with BBL™ CHROMagar™ Candida:
- Used as primary plate
- Presumptinve identification of C.albicans, C.tropicalis, and C.krusei
- Decrease time to results by 48 hours
- Inhibits normal bacterial flora
- Reduces the amount of yeast identification panels used
- Differentiates mixed yeast isolates
Results
CHROMagar Candida differentiates selected yeasts by color morphology, most other yeast isolates will appear in their natural white/cream colony color. Candida albicans will appear as green colonies, Candida tropicalis will appear as blue colonies, Candida galbrata will appear as pinkish-purple colonies.
Procedure
1. Streak CHROMagarTM Candida plate with a sample of the specimen.
2. Incubate plates aerobically at 37’C for 48 hours.
3. Observe plates for characteristic colonial morphology and color at 48 hours and again on day 4 & 7 if no growth on 1st reading.
Specs
| BBL CHROMagar Candida | |
| Storage: |
On receipt, store plates in the dark at 2 - 8°C in original sleeve wrapping until time of inoculation. Plates may be used up until the expiration date. |
