Agar medium overlaid with olive oil will enhance the growth of which organism?

a. Malassezia
b. Candida
c. Trichosporon
d. Cryptococcus


A
M. furfur is infrequently cultured in the clinical laboratory. Cultivation, for example, from a pos-itive blood culture requires an agar medium overlaid with a long-chain fatty acid (olive oil). The colonies are small when compared with the colonies of C. albicans and are creamy and white to off white.

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