Chromogenic culture media are very useful for the diagnosis of Candida but their main limitation is the low discrimination power among Candida species. In this study, 90.5% of Candida isolates were correctly assigned into the three groups of yeasts identified by CAN2 agar. However, this medium was actually useful for the identification of C. albicans with excellent sensitivity and specificity, while it showed lower sensitivity but excellent specificity for C. tropicalis (neither C. kefyr nor
C. lusitaniae were isolated in this study). The other Candida species cannot be differentiated from each other by this medium.
Our results were in accordance with other studies.