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Comparison of Two Commercial Preparations With Laboratory-Prepared Sabouraud-Antibiotic Medium

Stanley A. Rosenthal, PhD; Domenica Furnari

Arch Dermatol. 1971;104(5):486-489.

Abstract
Dermatophyte test medium (DTM), obtained from two commercial sources, was compared with a Sabouraud agar medium containing antibiotics for the isolation of dermatologically significant fungi from clinical material. Dermatophyte test medium from both sources gave a smaller number of isolates of dermatophytes and Candida albicans than did the more conventional medium with which it was compared. These commercial DTMs cannot be recommended as utterly satisfactory routine isolation media where good laboratory facilities are available, but may be useful under less favorable clinical or field conditions.

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine and the Skin and Cancer Unit of the New York University Medical Center.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 24, 1971.

Reprint requests to Department of Dermatology, New York University Medical Center, 562 First Ave, New York 10016 (Dr. Rosenthal).

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