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Utility of the germ tube test for direct identification of Candida albicans from positive blood culture bottles.

Donald C Sheppard1, Marie-Claude Locas, Christiane Restieri, Michel Laverdiere.   

Abstract

We compared the germ tube test for the direct identification of Candida albicans from positive blood culture bottles, with results obtained from subcultured colonies. The direct germ tube test was 87.1% sensitive and 100% specific for the identification of C. albicans when the results obtained from fungal colonies were compared.

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Year:  2008        PMID： 18685004      PMCID： PMC2566088          DOI： 10.1128/JCM.01113-08

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Clin Microbiol        ISSN： 0095-1137            Impact factor:   5.948


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