TY - JOUR AU - Leena Sankari, Sankar AU - Mahalakshmi, Krishnan AU - Naveen Kumar, Venkatesan PY - 2019 DA - 2019/10/22 TI - Chromogenic medium versus PCR–RFLP in the speciation of Candida: a comparative study JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 681 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Candida species is implicated in a wide array of clinical infections. Speciation of Candida strains is of prime importance in the epidemiological survey and laboratory diagnosis as there is an upswing of antifungal resistance and changing trends in the antifungal resistance pattern among C. albicans and non albicans Candida. Varied phenotypic methods are available for the identification of Candida species which vary in principles and cost factors. Chromogenic agar medium (HiCrome Candida differential agar) is one of the preferred phenotypic methods in limited resource laboratories. Hence, this study was aimed to assess the reliability of HiCrome Candida differential agar, M1297A (HiMedia) in the identification of Candida species compared polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP). Oral Candida isolates (n = 194) were inoculated onto HiCrome Candida differential agar and the potential of Candida differential Agar was compared with PCR–RFLP. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4710-5 DO - 10.1186/s13104-019-4710-5 ID - Leena Sankari2019 ER -