Yeast & Mold

Genus/species (aliases): Candida tropicalis (Atelosaccharomyces tropicalis, Candida albicans var. tropicalis, Castellania tropicalis, Monila tropicalis, Oidium tropicale, and Procandida tropicalis)

Classification: Ascomycete; anamorph

Morphology:

Cell: reproduce by budding; spherical to ovoid, 3.0-5.5 x 4.0-9.0 um; pseudohyphae and hyphae may be formed

Colony:

Genus/species (aliases): Candida stellata (Saccharomyces stellatus; Torulopsis stellata; Cryptococcus stellatus; Cryptococcus bacillaris; Saccharomyces bacillaris; Troulopsis bacillaris; Brettanomyces italicus)

Classification: Ascomycete; anamorph

Morphology:

Cell: budding; spherical to ovoid, usually found as single cells but may be arranged in a star-like configuration of cells; no hyphae or pseudohyphae are formed.

Colony:  

Genus/species (aliases): Candida parapsilosis (Blastodendrion globosum. Brettanomyces petrophilum, Monilia parapsilosis, Sacchromyces vossii)

Classification: Ascomycete, anamorph

Morphology:

Genus/species: Candida krusei (anamorph) (Issatchenkia orientalis; teleomorph)

Classification: Ascomycete

Morphology:

Genus/species (aliases): Candida intermedia (Blastodendrion intermedium)

Classification: Basidiomycete; anamorph

Morphology:

Cell: multilateral budding; ellipsoidal to cylindrical, (2.4-6.4) x (3.2-7.2) µm, usually in chains; simple to elaborate pseudohyphae formed generally arranged in short tree-like branches with ovoid blastospores present.

Colony:

Genus/species (aliases): Candida glabrata (Torulopsis glabrata, Cryptococcus glabratus)

Classification: Ascomycete; anamorph

Morphology:

Cell: Spherical to ovoid; vegetative reproduction by budding; no hyphae or pseudohyphae.

Colony:

• YPD: white to cream-colored, soft, glossy and smooth;

• Spore: NA
• Zygote: NA
• Ascus: NA

Liquid Growth: dispersed, some strains may form pellicles or sediments

See Dekkera

Genus/species (aliases):  Botrytis cinerea (Noble rot or Grey/Vulgar rot)

Classification: Ascomycete; occurs mainly in anamorphic form

Morphology:

Genus/species: Aureobasidium spp.

Classification: Ascomycete

Morphology:

Genus/species: Aspergillus sp.

Classification: Ascomycete

Morphology: