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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 1998, p. 2093-2095, Vol. 36, No. 7
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Simple, Inexpensive, Reliable Method for
Differentiation of Candida dubliniensis from
Candida albicans
Emmanuelle
Pinjon,1
Derek
Sullivan,1
Ira
Salkin,2,*
Diarmuid
Shanley,1 and
David
Coleman1
Department of Oral Medicine and Pathology,
School of Dental Science and Dublin Dental Hospital, Trinity
College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of
Ireland,1 and
Wadsworth Center, New
York State Department of Health, Albany, New
York2
Received 13 February 1998/Accepted 21 April 1998
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ABSTRACT |
Candida dubliniensis is a recently described pathogenic
species which shares many phenotypic features with Candida
albicans, including the ability to form germ tubes and
chlamydospores. These similarities have caused significant problems in
the identification of C. dubliniensis by the average
clinical mycology laboratory. To facilitate the differentiation of
these species, we investigated the growth of 120 isolates of C. dubliniensis and 98 C. albicans isolates at 42 and
45°C on Emmons' modified Sabouraud glucose agar (SGA) and 10 isolates of each species in yeast-peptone-dextrose broth. None of the
C. dubliniensis isolates grew on the agar or in the broth
medium at 45°C, while 11 isolates were capable of growing on SGA at
42°C. In contrast, all of the C. albicans isolates but
one grew at 45°C on or in either medium. These reproducible results
clearly demonstrate that the incubation of isolates suspected to be
C. dubliniensis or C. albicans at 45°C
provides a simple, reliable, and inexpensive method for the
differentiation of the two species.
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TEXT |
Candida dubliniensis is a
newly described species of the most protean genus of pathogenic yeasts
(9, 11). The vast majority of C. dubliniensis
isolates identified to date have been recovered from the oral
cavities of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals, particularly those suffering from recurrent episodes of
oral candidiasis (3, 8-11). However, a small number of
isolates associated with other anatomical sites, including the vagina
and the lung, have been reported (5, 9, 11). To gain a more complete understanding of the precise epidemiological role that this
species plays in human infections, it is essential that rapid and
reliable tests for the identification of C. dubliniensis in the routine clinical microbiology laboratory be
available. However, the introduction of such tests has been complicated
by the fact that C. dubliniensis shares many phenotypic
characteristics with Candida albicans (9). The
high degree of similarity between these two species has, in all
likelihood, contributed to the misidentification of some C. dubliniensis isolates as C. albicans
(3). The most reliable tests currently used for
discriminating between the two species are based on
molecular techniques such as DNA fingerprinting with
repetitive-sequence-containing DNA probes, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and others (2, 9, 11). Although they are
very effective, these techniques are not readily applicable to the
identification of large numbers of isolates, nor can they presently be
conducted in most standard mycology laboratories. While the use of a
number of phenotypic characteristics, e.g., chlamydospore production,
carbohydrate assimilation, colonial coloration on differential media
such as CHROMagar Candida and methyl blue-Sabouraud agar, has been
investigated, none has provided a completely reliable method for the
differentiation of C. albicans from C. dubliniensis (7, 9). It has previously been suggested that the two species could be distinguished by the inhibition of the
growth of C. dubliniensis at 42°C (2, 9,
11). However, one recent study reported that approximately
10% of C. dubliniensis isolates were able to grow,
albeit poorly, at this elevated temperature (9).
Furthermore, another recent study reported that 8 of 12 C. dubliniensis isolates examined grew at 42°C (7).
These findings motivated us to investigate whether incubation at an
even higher temperature would provide a simple, inexpensive, and
reliable means of differentiating the two species.
Descriptions of the 120 C. dubliniensis isolates and 98 isolates of C. albicans used in these studies are
presented in Table 1. Conventional
morphological and physiological methods as well as molecular techniques
were employed to identify isolates of both species (11). All
yeasts studied were initially grown for 48 h at 37°C
individually on 25 ml of Emmons' modified Sabouraud glucose agar (SGA)
contained in 85-mm-diameter petri dishes. A small portion of a single
colony of each isolate was then aseptically removed and streaked over
the surface of two plates of SGA, one of which was incubated at 42°C
and the second of which was placed at 45°C. Growth, if any, on
both plates was visually assessed after 24 and 48 h of incubation.
In addition to these experiments, 10 isolates of each species were
selected for examination of their growth in yeast-peptone-dextrose
(YPD) broth at 37, 42, and 45°C. The 10 C. dubliniensis isolates included 3 which grew poorly at 42°C on
SGA medium and 7 that did not grow at all on SGA at that temperature.
Nine of the C. albicans isolates were randomly
selected, while the 10th isolate was chosen because it failed to grow
at 45°C on SGA (see below). By using a hemocytometer, a standard inoculum suspension, containing 105 CFU in sterile
distilled water, was prepared from colonies of each isolate grown on
SGA for 24 h at 37°C. The inoculum was then aseptically
transferred to YPD broth (to a final volume of 50 ml) in 250-ml conical
flasks and incubated at the three temperatures with shaking at 150 rpm.
At specific time points, aliquots of each isolate were removed to
spectrophotometrically measure their optical densities at 600 nm. These
values were then used to plot a growth curve for each isolate at each
temperature.
No growth was found for any of the 120 C. dubliniensis isolates at 24 and 48 h on SGA at
45°C, although 11 isolates showed limited growth after 48 h of
incubation at 42°C. All 98 of the C. albicans
isolates showed good growth at 42°C on SGA at 48 h, and all but
one exhibited substantial growth after the same period of time at
45°C. The growth of more than half of the isolates was examined
on at least two occasions, and identical results were obtained in these
confirmatory studies. Representative growth curves for isolates of each
species grown in YPD broth at 37 and 45°C are presented in Fig.
1. Although all 10 selected isolates of
C. dubliniensis grew at 37°C, 7 failed to grow at
42°C, while the 3 that showed limited growth on SGA at this
temperature also showed limited growth in YPD broth. None of the 10 isolates examined showed any appreciable growth in YPD broth at
45°C. All but 1 of the 10 C. albicans isolates
grew well in YPD broth at all three temperatures. The single isolate
which failed to grow in the broth at 45°C (isolate CA58.1) also
failed to grow when incubated on SGA at the same temperature.
Preliminary studies with a single isolate of a closely allied taxon,
Candida stellatoidea type I (ATCC 11006), demonstrated
that it, too, like the majority of C. dubliniensis
isolates, did not grow at 42 or 45°C. However, C. stellatoidea type I may be easily differentiated from
C. dubliniensis on the basis of sucrose assimilation,
production of
-glucosidase, and serotype (1, 11).

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FIG. 1.
Growth curves of the oral isolates C. albicans 132A and CA58.1 and C. dubliniensis CD36
and CD43 in YPD broth medium at 37°C (solid lines) and 45°C (dashed
lines). O.D. 600, optical density at 600 nm.
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The data from these studies clearly indicate that C. dubliniensis can be readily distinguished from C. albicans by the incubation of isolates on SGA at 45°C. This
test is simple, reliable, inexpensive, reproducible, and readily
applicable to large numbers of isolates in either a clinical or
academic mycology laboratory. This simple procedure can be employed to
retrospectively evaluate the identification of stored cultures of
C. albicans held in stock collections. In a previous
retrospective analysis of the authors' collection of C. albicans isolates, 2 of 110 (1.8%) isolates recovered from the
oral cavities of asymptomatic, normal, healthy individuals and 13 of 79 (16.5%) isolates which had been obtained from the oral cavities of
HIV-infected individuals and had been identified as C. albicans were found to be C. dubliniensis
(3). Accurate identification of C. dubliniensis isolates in archival collections and in clinical
specimens should provide invaluable information concerning the
epidemiology of this species and help to establish its clinical
significance. In addition, data from such investigations may also help
to explain the rapid emergence of C. dubliniensis as a
potentially significant pathogen during the last decade.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
We thank our colleagues who sent us isolates of C. dubliniensis and C. albicans, including Aristea
Velegraki, Department of Microbiology, National University of
Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece; Markus Ruhnke, Virchow
Klinikum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany; Luc Giasson,
School of Dentistry, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada; Jose
Ponton, Departamento de Inmunología, Microbiología y
Parasitología, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao,
Vizcaya, Spain; Elizabeth Johnson, Public Health Laboratory Service,
Mycology Reference Laboratory, Bristol, United Kingdom; Frank Odds,
Department of Bacteriology and Mycology, Janssen Research Foundation,
Beerse, Belgium; Lakshman Samaranayake, Oral Biology Unit, Faculty of
Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and Fiona Mulcahy,
Department of Genitourinary Medicine, St. James's Hospital, Dublin,
Ireland.
This work was supported by Irish Health Research Board grants 41/96 and
4/97.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Wadsworth
Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201-0509. Phone: (518) 485-5386. Fax: (518) 485 5414. E-mail:
ifs02{at}health.state.ny.us.
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