Candida albicans masquerading as gram-negative bacilli in the clinical laboratory |
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Authors: | Gilad Jacob Giladi Michael Schwartz David |
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Affiliation: | Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre, Tel-Aviv, Israel. giladko@014.net.il |
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Abstract: | We report misidentification of Candida albicans as Gram-negative bacilli owing to colony morphology on MacConkey agar and subsequent inoculation into GN-ID/VITEK-2. ATCC and clinical Candida strains (n = 24) masqueraded as various bacterial species when experimentally inoculated into GN-ID cards. This phenomenon should be considered when peculiar taxa or susceptibility are encountered. |
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