Soil-Extract Agar for Candida Albicans

Bakerspigel, A.

doi:10.1001/archderm.1954.01540180085012

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Section: Diagnostic Value and Inducing Growth Mediamentioning

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“…The influence of different types of cornmeal agar on chlamydospore formation was evaluated by Gordon et al [22], who found yellow cornmeal to induce chlamydospore formation in C. albicans better than the white or dehydrated types. A polysaccharide medium of known composition favouring chlamydospore formation was inaugurated by Nickerson and Mankowski [23] and a soil‐extract agar by Bakerspigel [24]. Raubitschek and also Bakerspigel reported rapid formation of chlamydospores on Ashner's taurocholate agar 25,26 and Pavlatou and Marselou [27] recommended a potato–carrot agar for C. albicans chlamydosporulation.…”

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Chlamydospore formation in Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis– an enigmatic developmental programme

Staib

Morschhäuser

2006

Mycoses

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Chlamydospore formation has served for a long time for identification of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, but the biological function of these structures still remains a secret. They have been proposed to allow survival in harsh environmental conditions, but this assumption remains to be proven. Chlamydospores are produced only by the two closely related species C. albicans and Candida dubliniensis, whose natural habitats are humans and warm-blooded animals, but not by other Candida species that are also found outside animal hosts. However, no role in the pathogenesis of Candida infections has been assigned to these unusual cells and only a limited number of studies have been conducted in the past to unravel their function. The development of new molecular tools and the recent discovery of mating in C. albicans have also restimulated investigations to understand the morphogenesis and function of chlamydospores. The finding that chlamydospore formation is differentially controlled by certain environmental signals in C. albicans and C. dubliniensis has opened new approaches to study the regulation of this morphogenetic programme. These studies have already identified genes and signalling pathways that are required for chlamydospore production and should lead to a detailed understanding of this fascinating developmental process.

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