Table 1 Distribution of the colony colors on CA and BiGGY agar within each yeast species
From: Performance of CHROMAGAR candida and BIGGY agar for identification of yeast species
Species | No | Number of strains | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CHROMagar Candida | BIGGY agar | |||||||||||
Light green | Dark green | Blue-purple | Pink | Dark pink | Off white-cream | Light brown | Dark brown | Yellowish-mustard | Cream | Gray | ||
C. albicans | 169 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 147 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C. tropicalis | 33 | 0 | 0 | 32a | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C. glabrata | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20b | 0 | 4 | 14c | 2c | 0 | 0 | 8c |
C. parapsilosis | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
C. krusei | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12d | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12d,e | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trichosporon spp. | 5 | 0 | 5a,d | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
C. kefyr | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C. lusitaniae | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
C. guilliermondii | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
G. candidum | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1d | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
S. cerevisiae | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1a | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |