Mycobiotic or Mycosel selective medium principally formulated for the isolation of dermatophytes but also used for the isolation of other pathogenic fungi from specimens contaminated with saprophytic fungi and bacteria.
The medium consists primarily of peptones from a pancreatic digest of soybean meal and dextrose. The selective agents are cycloheximide and chloramphenicol.
Cycloheximide inhibits the faster-growing saprophytic fungi. Chloramphenicol inhibits Gram-negative and Gram-positive organisms. Susceptibility to cycloheximide may be used for identification of fungi.
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