Candida albicans Images

Candida albicans. culture topside: cultivation on selective, modified (cycloheximide, chloramphenicol) cinnamon agar at 25 °C. Fast growing (1-2 days), white or creamy mat colonies with porcelain-like, smooth surface. typical yeast smell.

Candida albicans; underside of the plant: white to cream-coloured colonies, slightly darker compared to the upper side of the plant; sharply limited growth.

Candida albicans. Cultivation on chromium selective agar (Beckton Dickinson BBL CHROMagar Candida) at 25 °C. Fast growing (1-2 days), green colonies with porcelain-like, smooth surface and lobed rim (in the picture purple colonies originate from the simultaneous cultivation of Candida guilliermondii).

Candida albicans, pseudomycelia in septic candidiasis with kidney involvement; Fungiqual A fluorescence staining (Prof. Dr. H. Koch).

Detail enlargement: Candidaalbicans in the mycelial phase (parasitic growth) of Candida sepsis in an immunocompromised patient; pseudomycetlial cells and partially solitary blastospores as well as hyphal-like, angular branches in the pseudomycel.

Candida albicans: Microscopy in fluorescence and higher magnification: C. albicans (mycelial phase) branched pseudomycelium and blastospores; cultivation in culture; Fungiqual A and B fluorescence staining (Dr. H. Koch).

Blastospores of C.albicans after systemic manifestation in an immunocompromised patient; kidney; PAS staining (PD Dr. Y. Koch).