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Principle
- Corn meal agar is used for the cultivation of fungi and also used to study chlamydospores production of Candida species. The media is simple and composed of corn meal infusion form and agar.
- The corn meal infusion form provides essential and complete nutrients essential for the growth of fungi. In media, Polysorbate 80 is added, which is a mixture of oleic esters, which helps to activate the production of chlamydospore by Candida albicans, Candida stellatoides, and Candida tropicalis.
- For the chlamydospores study pick the suspected colony from the Sabouraud dextrose agar plate.
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Use: Recommended for chlamydospore production by Candida albicans and the maintenance of fungal stock cultures.
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PHYSICAL PARAMETERS:
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Dehydrated Powder
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Description
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A fine, free flowing, powder.
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Color
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Off white to light beige colored powder.
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Solution
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Solubility
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Soluble in Distilled / de-ionized water at 50˚ C
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Color
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Milky white, opalescent solution
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pH
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6.00 ±0.2 at 25 ˚C (17.00 g/ l)
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Agar Plates
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Solidification
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40 ˚C
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Color
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Milky white opalescent gel
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