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Evaluation of Blood Stream Infection Caused By Candida Species


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1 Department of Biotechnology, Govt. New Science College, Rewa (M.P.), India
2 Department of Microbiology, Escort Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India
     

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Yeast and yeast like fungi cause infection in man. Before culturing and identifying the specific pathogenic fungus, it is important to demonstrate the fungus in the clinical specimen. The difficulties for clinical diagnosis lie in the absence of specific signs and for biological diagnosis lie in opportunistic character of yeast. The biological test like sugar fermentation and assimilation are of immense important for identification of the yeast isolates.
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Authors

Minakshi Pandey
Department of Biotechnology, Govt. New Science College, Rewa (M.P.), India
Sweta Sharma
Department of Microbiology, Escort Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India
S. K. Mishra
Department of Biotechnology, Govt. New Science College, Rewa (M.P.), India

Abstract


Yeast and yeast like fungi cause infection in man. Before culturing and identifying the specific pathogenic fungus, it is important to demonstrate the fungus in the clinical specimen. The difficulties for clinical diagnosis lie in the absence of specific signs and for biological diagnosis lie in opportunistic character of yeast. The biological test like sugar fermentation and assimilation are of immense important for identification of the yeast isolates.

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