Answer:
1. Growth on cornmeal agar
2. KOH prep
Explanation:
Cornmeal agar is a nutritional deficient media containing :
- Corn meal 8g / zein 40 g / 100ml
- Agar 4g
- Distilled water 200 ml
- Large , highly refractory, thick walled.
KOH preparation (10 - 30% ) used to destroy keratin, leaves fungal hyphae.
- Can add a chitin-specific stain
- Calcofluor white fluorescent stain increases sensitivity
Hence the organism can easily be identified by these two tests.
