You can not use CHROMagar Candida for isolation and identification of Cryptococcus neoformans.You need a selective medium which can easily differentiate Cr.neoformans from other fungi,.We had developed Pal sunflower seed medium in 1980,which is now used for laboratory diagnosis, epidemiological investigation and sexual compatibility of Cr.neoformans.We compared our medium with other media.Our observations revealed that development of brown color is fast on Pal medium as compared with other media.There is no fungi or bacteria which can impart brown color on Pal medium.You can download my papers on the efficay of Pal medium for quick isolation and identification of Cr.neoformans from clinical and environmental samples.
Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal
Founder Director of Narayan Consultancy, on Veterinary Public Health
I have uploaded several papers on Pal sunflower seed medium on Research Gate and Academia.You can download any paper related to your research work.If you failed to get my papers, please inform me so that I can send you few papers on Pal sunflower seed medium on your mail.You can also read about Pal sunflower seed medium from my book entitled" Veterinary and Medical Mycology". If you are really interested to work on our selective medium for quick isolation and identification of Cr.neoformans, please send me your email.My email is given below: