Perfect media for isolation of fungi from patients with dermatophytosis

ABSTRACT

Three types of ordinary media were tested in order to assess perfect one for isolation of dermatophytes from patients with dermatophytosis disease. Tinea pedis was preferred to give a positive growth on all three tested media, whereas Tinea corporis was favorable to grow on the PDA and Tinea cruris on SDA. SDA and PDA were appeared as successful media for specimen culturing, in contrast with CDA and Candida albicanis was the best fungi species grown on these media, followed by T. mentagrophytes