Development of Natural Culture Media for Rapid Induction ofFonsecaea pedrosoiSclerotic Cells In Vitro
- 1 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 46 (11) , 3839-3841
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00482-08
Abstract
Fonsecaea pedrosoi is the main agent of chromoblastomycosis, a skin disease presenting verrucous lesions, in which round, thick-walled sclerotic cells are found. In vitro induction of sclerotic cells is time-consuming (20 to 45 days) and temperature dependent. We present two new natural media that reduce the sclerotic-cell induction time to only 2 days.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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