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Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques 6E
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Chapter1: The Clinical Laboratory
Section1.2: The Clinical Laboratory Professional
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You obtain this culture from someone’s mouth. What would you guess that they have?

  • A. filamentous fungi, Candida albicans
  • B. yeast, Candida albicans
  • C. filamentous fungi, Aspergillus
  • D. yeast, Aspergillus
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Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast that is commonly found in the human gut flora. It can also survive outside the human body. The culture plate in the picture shows small, oval, creamy, pasty colonies with smooth edges. These are the characteristics of Candida albicans in its yeast form. Absence of any hyphal or filamentous projections on it discards the possibility of the Candida albicans in its filamentous form.

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