(3) Collection, Handling, Processing of Clinical Mycology Specimens Flashcards
Enumerate the Techniques to obtain culture material for slide preparation
- Tease Mount Method
- Cellophane Tape Method
- Slide Culture/ Microculture/ Riddel’s Method
Techniques to obtain culture material for slide preparation
- One of the most common technique done in the laboratory.
- A dissecting needle, commonly a bent wire, is used to pull apart a fungal colony which is placed on a slide.
- Usually done when placing an LPCB stain on a culture sample.
Tease Mount Method
Go over the procedure
Techniques to obtain culture material for slide preparation
Cellophane tape is used to transfer aerial hyphae from the colony to a microscope slide for examination
Cellophane Tape Method
Go over the procedure
Techniques to obtain culture material for slide preparation
Allows for in-situ analysis of fungi with as little disruption on the structures as possible
Slide Culture/ Microculture/ Riddel’s Method
go over the procedure
Enumrate the Biochemical Tests
- Urease Hydrolysis Test
- Germ Tube Production
- Carbohydrate Assimilation Test
- Red Colonial Pigmentation
- Woods Lamp Examination
Biochemincal Tests
Tests an organism’s ability to produce exoenzyme, called urease, which hydrolyzes urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Urease Hydrolysis Test
Biochemincal Tests
what is the positive reaction for Urease Hydrolysis Test
PINK
Urease (+) organisms generate enough ammonia to turn the phenol red indicator in the media into PINK.
Biochemincal Tests
what are the Urease positive fungies
Cryptococcus neoformans and
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Biochemincal Tests
hyphae-like extensions of young yeast cells showing parallel non-septate sides
Germ Tube Production
Biochemincal Tests
what are teh fungi positive for Germ tube
Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis
go over the procedure
Biochemincal Tests
- Determine the ability of a yeast to use a carbohydrate as its sole carbon source.
- Uses a yeast nitrogen base broth
Carbohydrate Assimilation Test
Biochemincal Tests
A (+) result for Carbohydrate ASsimilation test indicated by the growth of yeast means
the fungi can use carbohydrate as its carbon source
Biochemincal Tests
- Use the potato dextrose
agar to enhance the pigment production in some dermatophytes
red pigment is then observed in the sub-surface of the agar surrounding the
fungi
Red Colonial Pigmentation
Biochemical Tests
What fungi are red pigment producers
Trichophyton rubrum
and Rhodotorula species
Biochemical Test
Diagnostic test in which the skin or hair is examined while exposed to the black light emitted by a wood lamp
Woods Lamp Examination
Biochemical Test
Infected skin or hair (+) for wood lamps examination, dermatophytes will fluoresce what color?
bright green to yellow-green
The test works for both zoonotic and human infections.
Important in cases of some fungal infections where the fungal polysaccharide or proteins are shed out in body fluids
Serology-Antigen Detection Test