Candita

• • causes candidiasis.
  • members of normal flora of skin, mucous membranes and gastrointestinal tract
  • most common agents are C.albicans, C.parapsilosis
• Morphology and identification

  • as oval, budding yeast cells
  • form pseudohyphae
  • unlike other species of Candita, C.albicans is dimorphic produce true hyphae.
  • Candita species produce soft, cream-colored colonies
• Diagnostic laboratory tests

  (1) Specimens

  (2) Microscopic examination

  (3) Culture

  • on fungal or bacteriological media at 37 °C
  • C.albicans is identified by production of germ tubes or chlamydospores.

  (4) Sero logy