TABLE 3.
Use of trehalose-sucrose assimilation test to identify yeast isolates obtained from patients receiving antifungal treatment at time of sampling
Organism | No. of isolates | No. of isolates testing positive
|
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Trehalose
|
Sucrose
|
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4 h | 24 h | 4 h | 24 h | ||
C. albicans | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
C. glabrata | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
C. kefyr | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
C. tropicalis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
C. krusei | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
S. cerevisiae | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |