Abstract :
Fungal infections are commonly found in people in tropical countries,
including Indonesia. An example of a fungus that can infect humans is Candida
albicans. The laboratory diagnosis of candidiasis can be done by means of
microscopic examination, molecular identification, serological tests and culture
systems on specimens. Diagnosis by culture method aims to identify and confirm
the results of microscopic examination. In the method of culture of candidiasis
disease is done by isolating the fungus Candida albicans from patient samples on
the media. Several previous researchers managed to find a natural medium for the
growth of the fungus Candida albicans.
This research is experimental using Completely Randomized Design (CRD)
with 2 treatment factors. Factor 1 is the type of fungus, namely Candida albicans,
factor 2 is the type of natural media, namely media from corn, cassava and yellow
sweet potato and PDA media as control. In the observation of 48 hours
incubation, the average growth ofcolonies Candida albicans was 4.27 on corn
media, 5.87 on cassava media, 5.70 on yellow sweet potato media and 2.48 on
PDA media. From the results of the Saphiro-wilk test, it was found that the data
were normally distributed (p>0.05). The data from the Levene Test showed that
the data were assumed to be the same (p>0.05), and thetest One Way
ANOVAfound that (p<0.05) which means that there were differences in the
growth of Candida albicans on corn, cassava and yellow sweet potato media.