DESCRIPTIONS OF MEDICAL FUNGI
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Descriptions of Medical Fungi 37<br />
Candida albicans is a commensal of mucous membranes and the gastrointestinal<br />
tract. Environmental isolations have been made from sources contaminated by human<br />
or animal excreta, such as polluted water, soil, air and plants.<br />
RG-2 organism.<br />
Candida albicans (Robin) Berkhout<br />
Culture: Colonies (SDA) white to cream-coloured smooth, glabrous, yeast-like.<br />
Microscopy: Spherical to subspherical budding blastoconidia, 2-7 x 3-8 µm in size.<br />
India Ink Preparation: Negative - no capsules present.<br />
Dalmau Plate Culture: Branched pseudohyphae with dense verticils of blastoconidia.<br />
Spherical chlamydospores, mostly terminal, often on a slightly swollen subtending cell,<br />
are formed near the edge of the cover slip.<br />
Physiological Tests: + Positive, - Negative, v Variable, w Weak, s Slow<br />
Germ Tube + L-Sorbose v L-Arabinose v D-Glucitol v<br />
Fermentation Sucrose v D-Arabinose v α-M-D-glucoside v<br />
Glucose + Maltose + D-Ribose v D-Gluconate v<br />
Galactose v Cellobiose - L-Rhamnose - DL-Lactate +<br />
Sucrose v Trehalose v D-Glucosamine v myo-Inositol -<br />
Maltose + Lactose - N-A-D-glucosamine v 2-K-D-gluconate +<br />
Lactose - Melibiose - Glycerol v D-Glucuronate -<br />
Trehalose v Raffinose - Erythritol - Nitrate -<br />
Assimilation Melezitose v Ribitol v Urease -<br />
Glucose + Soluble Starch + Galactitol - 0.1% Cycloheximide +<br />
Galactose + D-Xylose + D-Mannitol + Growth at 40 O C +<br />
Key Features: Germ tube positive, production of chlamydospores on Dalmau plate<br />
culture, fermentation of glucose, sugar assimilation profile and a distinctive green<br />
colour on CHROMagar. Note: Germ tube negative variants (previously known as C.<br />
claussenii), and sucrose-negative variants (previously described as C. stellatoidea)<br />
may occur.<br />
Antifungal Susceptibility: C. albicans (Australian National data); MIC µg/mL.<br />
CLSI clinical breakpoints are marked where available (Pfaller and Diekema 2012).<br />
No 64<br />
AmB 1725 2 16 162 644 548 305 48<br />
FLU 1728 2 2 2 83 468 706 314 62 12 11 18 8 40<br />
VORI 1445 739 404 156 75 18 17 18 5 5 1 1 6<br />
POSA 1095 88 416 367 137 50 18 10 6 1 1<br />
ITRA 1728 20 122 443 661 378 43 30 10 3 1 17<br />
ANID 821 5 280 320 146 64 5 0 0 1<br />
MICA 819 470 261 73 11 4<br />
CAS 1171 3 13 207 490 327 112 17 2<br />
5FC 1728 4 147 765 362 164 171 62 16 7 5 3 3 19