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. 1978;44(2):243-6.
doi: 10.1007/BF00643226.

A rapid pigmentation test for identification of Cryptococcus neoformans

D K Paliwal, H S Randhawa

A rapid pigmentation test for identification of Cryptococcus neoformans

D K Paliwal et al. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 1978.

Abstract

A rapid pigmentation test for identification of Cryptococcus neoformans is described. The method is based on the formation of a characteristic, mouse-grey to violaceous-black pigment when shake cultures of C. neoformans in a phosphate-buffered, l-DOPA - ferric citrate medium are incubated at 37 C for one hour.

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