✦ LIBER ✦
Elastase activity of fungi with anamorphs similar toCoccidioides immitis
✍ Scribed by David M. Lupan; Pasipanodya Nziramasanga
- Book ID
- 104773420
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-486X
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✦ Synopsis
The elastin digestion assay was examined to determine if it would facilitate the identification of Coccidioides immitis when non-pathogenic fungi resembling C. immitis are encountered. Fungal isolants tested have anamorphs that closely resemble the macroscopic or microscopic morphology of C. immitis. Elastin hydrolysis was measured by elastin-agar plate assays. Approximately 80% of the isolants hydrolyzed elastin; thus, the elastin digestion assay as a differential test appears to have little value.