DSE – 7A
APMB 353P Practicals – XIV: MEDICAL MYCOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY (1 credit)
1. KOH preparation for skin scrapings for fungi.
2. Lactophenol preparation for fungi – Aspergillus, Rhizopus and Mucor.
3. Germ tube test for Candida albicans.
4. Wet mount preparation for Candida and Cryptococcus.
5. Sugar fermentation and sugar assimilation test for yeasts.
6. Cultivation of fungi and yeast on SDA or corn meal agar.
7. Slide culture technique.
8. Saline wet mount examinations of stool for parasites.
9. Iodine mount examinations of stool for parasites.
10. LPCB mount examinations of stool for parasites.
11. Stool culture for amoeba and hookworm.
12. Floatation sedimentation techniques for stool examination.
13. Staining of peripheral blood smear for malarial parasite.