AN IMPROVED CULTURE-MEDIUM FOR DETECTING LIVE YEAST PHASE CELLS OF PARACOCCIDIOIDES-BRASILIENSIS
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1993-01-01
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Kurita, N.
Sano, A.
Coelho, Kunie Iabuki Rabello [UNESP]
Takeo, K.
Nishimura, K.
Miyaji, M.
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Blackwell Science
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The plating efficiency of standard mycological media such as brain heart infusion (BHI) agar is poor for Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. We prepared a water-extract of yeast phase cells of P. brasiliensis and examined it for growth-enhancing activity for the fungus. The water-extract, when added to BHI agar to a concentration of 5%, improved the plating efficiency of the medium for the fungus to some extent, but the degree of improvement was considerably varied among P. brasiliensis isolates. By contrast, when the water-extract was added in combination with horse serum (4%), the plating efficiency was highly improved (to 94-99%) for all the P. brasiliensis isolates employed. The growth-enhancing factor(s) in the water-extract was heat-stable and heating at 120-degrees-C for 15 min had little, if any, effect on growth-enhancing activity.
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Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology. Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd, v. 31, n. 3, p. 201-205, 1993.