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Routine mycological media used in clinical practice do not contain sufficient lipid ingredients required for the growth of <jats:italic>Malassezia<\/jats:italic> species. A recently developed medium, FastFung agar, is promising for culturing fastidious fungal species.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this study, we compared FastFung agar and mDixon agar for culturing <jats:italic>Malassezia<\/jats:italic> species from nasolabial fold and retroauricular specimens of 83 healthy individuals and 187 and 57 patients with acne vulgaris and seborrheic dermatitis, respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Malassezia<\/jats:italic> species were identified using conventional tests and matrix\u2010assisted laser desorption\/ionisation mass spectrometry. In total, 96 of 654 samples (14.6%) contained <jats:italic>Malassezia<\/jats:italic> species. The total isolation rate was significantly higher in patients with seborrheic dermatitis (40.4%) than in healthy volunteers (21.7%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05), and the rate of <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>. <jats:italic>furfur<\/jats:italic> isolation was significantly higher for patients with acne vulgaris (13.9%) and seborrheic dermatitis (24.6%) than for healthy individuals (1.5%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05). FastFung agar was superior to mDixon agar in <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>. <jats:italic>furfur<\/jats:italic> isolation (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.004) but showed similar performance in the case of non\u2010<jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>. <jats:italic>furfur<\/jats:italic> species (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&gt;\u2009.05). Among cultured <jats:italic>Malassezia<\/jats:italic> species, perfect agreement between mDixon agar and FastFung agar was found only for <jats:italic>M. globosa<\/jats:italic> (\u03ba\u00a0=\u00a00.90).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our results indicate that FastFung agar favours the growth of <jats:italic>Malassezia<\/jats:italic> species and should be useful in clinical mycology laboratories.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/myc.13450","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,4]],"date-time":"2022-05-04T14:48:47Z","timestamp":1651675727000},"page":"704-708","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Effectiveness of <scp>FastFung<\/scp> agar in the isolation of <i>Malassezia furfur<\/i> from skin 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