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| Year : 2003 | Volume
: 21
| Issue : 4 | Page : 277-279 |
Use of a new medium - Tobacco agar, for pigment production of cryptococcus neoformans
U Tendolkar, S Tainwala, S Jog, M Mathur
Department of Microbiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital Sion, Mumbai - 400 022, India
Correspondence Address:
U Tendolkar
Department of Microbiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital Sion, Mumbai - 400 022
India
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PMID: 17643044 
Cryptococcus neoformans produces brown colonies on Niger seed (Guizotia abyssinica) agar. Media containing caffeic acid, L-dopa and other diphenolic compounds, have been used for the same purpose. The present report describes a new medium containing tobacco which supports growth of C.neoformans and allows its easy differentiation by formation of brown coloured colonies.
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