Morphotyping as a tool for characterization of candida albicans

ABSTRACT

A new morphological system was used to differentiate clinical [mainly diabetics] and environmental C. Albicans isolates. The numerical codes were assigned primarily on the basis of the nature and extent of marginal fringing and the surface topography of the streak colony. Such differentiation reveals special types that were confined to clinical isolates and others for environmental ones. While 2 types showed in both isolates, this may indicate the importance of environmental isolates in transmitting diseases. The system was a simple and reproducible means for epidemiological studies of Candida and Candidosis