Candida parapsilosis produces a crop of separated foci of growth that show radiating pseudohyphae and scattered blastoconidia, producing what are known as “spider” or “crossed ...
(a) Candida albicans: green, smooth colonies; CMA: large, thick-walled chlamydospore, usually terminal and present singly or in small clusters along with clusters of round blastoconidia. ...
Corn Meal Agar is used for the cultivation of fungi and the demonstration of chlamydospore production
Candida albicans is the etiological agent in candidiasis, which can range from ...
The cells shown in Image below are arthroconidia, some showing buds coming off of adjacent corners. This feature is diagnostic for Trichosporon species.
The yeast cells of Cryptococcus ...
Yeast will grow on bacteriological media (sheep blood agar and chocolate agar). They may appear as small, creamy or white colonies that are somewhat more raised than staphylococcal ...
For selective isolation of yeasts and direct identification of Candida albicans
Candida albicans colonies are coloured blue by the specific hydrolysis of a hexosaminidase chromogenic ...
hyphae (the plural from hypha) is a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus and also found in Actinobacteria.
hyphae are collectively together called a mycelium
A ...