Sengupta P, Ohri V C
Classified Specialist (Pathology), Military Hospital, Yol 176052.
Commandant, 167 Military Hospital, C/O 56 APO.
Med J Armed Forces India. 1999 Oct;55(4):319-321. doi: 10.1016/S0377-1237(17)30359-3. Epub 2017 Jun 26.
Opportunistic yeast infections are very common in patients with malignancy or some form of immuno-suppression. Conventional methods of yeast identification are time consuming and labour intensive whereas commercial methods are expensive and beyond reach of most laboratories. Disk diffusion method offers a relatively simple, inexpensive and rapid method of identifying yeasts. 63 specimens of yeasts were isolated and identified from 68 patients by conventional methods. With disk diffusion method 54 of 63 species (85.7%) gave the same identification.
机会性酵母菌感染在恶性肿瘤患者或某种形式的免疫抑制患者中非常常见。传统的酵母菌鉴定方法耗时且费力,而商业方法则昂贵且大多数实验室难以企及。纸片扩散法提供了一种相对简单、廉价且快速的酵母菌鉴定方法。通过传统方法从68例患者中分离并鉴定出63株酵母菌。采用纸片扩散法,63个菌株中有54个(85.7%)得到了相同的鉴定结果。