Rapid Enzyme Tests for the Presumptive Identification of Candida albicans 426 Caffeic Acid Disk Test 426 Olive Oil Disks for Culturing Malassezia spp. 426 Conversion of Thermally Dimorphic Fungi in Culture 427 Sporulation Inducement Method for Apophysomyces and Saksenaea 428 In vitro Hair Perforation Test( for Differentiation of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum) 428 Temperature Tolerance Testing 429 Maintenance of Stock Fungal Cultures 429 Controlling Mites 430
Staining Methods 431
Acid-Fast Modified Kinyoun Stain for Nocardia spp. 432 Acid-Fast Stain for Ascospores 433 Ascospore Stain 433 Calcofluor White Stain 434 Giemsa Stain 435 Gomori Methenamine Silver( GMS) Stain 435 Gram Stain( Hucker Modification) 438 Lactophenol Cotton Blue 439
Lactophenol Cotton Blue with Polyvinyl Alcohol( PVA)( Huber ' s PVA Mounting Medium, Modified) 439
Rehydration of Paraffin-Embedded Tissue( Deparaffination) 440
Media 441
Ascospore Media 443 Assimilation Media( for Yeasts) 444 Birdseed Agar( Niger Seed Agar; Staib Agar) 448 Brain Heart Infusion( BHI) Agar 449 Buffered Charcoal-Yeast Extract( BCYE) Agar 450 Canavanine Glycine Bromothymol Blue( CGB) Agar 450 Casein Agar 451 CHROMagar Candida Medium 452 CHROMagar Candida Plus Medium 453 CHROMID Candida Agar 453 Chromogenic Candida Agar( Brilliance Candida Agar) 454 Cornmeal Agar 454 Dermatophyte Test Medium( DTM) 455 Esculin Agar 456 Fermentation Broth for Yeasts 456 Inhibitory Mould Agar( IMA) 457 Leeming-Notman Agar( Modified) 458
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