SUBCLINICAL ATLAS, PARASITOLOGY ATLAS, ACREMONIUM, ALTERNARIA , ASPERGILLUS SPECIES , ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS , ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS , ASPERGILLUS NIGER , ASPERGILLUS TERREUS , ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS , ASPERGILLUS TAMARII , BIPOLARIS
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| Fig. 1: Acremonium species on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 7 days |
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| Fig 2: Acremonium species. Oblong conidia accumulating at the apices of narrow Phialides |
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| Fig. 3: Alternaria species. Growth on potato dextrose agar |
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| Fig. 4: Alternaria species. Obclavate, muriform conidia in chains |
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| Fig. 5: Aspergillus flavus growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days |
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| Fig. 6: Aspergillus flavus conidial head supported by a rough-walled conidiophore |
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| Figs 7A and B: Aspergillus fumigatus growth on Potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 8: Aspergillus fumigatus uniseriate phialides attached to the upper surface of the vesicle |
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| Figs 9A and B: Aspergillus niger growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 10: Aspergillus niger with radiate conidial heads |
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| Figs 11A and B: Aspergillus terreus growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days (A—Pale cinnamon color coloy; B—Dark brown color colony) |
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| Figs 12A and B: Aspergillus terreus with biseriate conidial head |
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| Figs 13A and B: Aspergillus nidulans growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 7 days (A—Surface and B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 14: Aspergillus nidulans conidial head and round hulle cells (¾) |
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| Fig. 15: Colony of A.tamarii
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| Fig. 16: Conidial head of A. tamarii |
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| Figs 17A and B: Bipolaris species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 18: Bipolaris species conidiophore geniculate with fusoid multiseptate conidia (→) scarcely protuberant hilum (¾) |
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| Fig. 19: Cream colored pasty colonies on potato dextrose agar (2 days) |
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| Fig. 8.20: C.albicans produces true germ tubes |
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| Fig. 21: Cottony white colony of C.irregularis on potato dextrose agar (7 days) |
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| Figs 22A to C: Two conidium (A) and Cluster of conidia borne on short swollen conidiogenous cells B and C (400 X magnification) |
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| Figs 23A and B: Cladosporium species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days |
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| Fig. 24: Cladosporium species Shield-shaped conidia with scars (¾) at points of attachment, bicellular conidium (→) |
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| Fig.25: Colletotrichum species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 7days |
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| Figs 26A and B: 5 days old culture of C. coccodes (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 27: Few conidia (¾) with setae (→) of Colletotrichum |
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| Fig. 28: Cylindrical conidia of Colletotrichum coccodes |
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| Fig. 29: Curvularia species growth on Potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days |
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| Figs 30A and B: Curvularia species growth curved poroconidia with larger and darker central cell (→) |
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| Fig. 31: Exserohilum species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 7 days |
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| Fig. 32: Exserohilum species geniculate conidiophore, (→) poroconidium with protuberant hilum and darker septa at the ends (¾) |
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| Figs 33A and B: Fusarium species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Figs 34A and B: F. semitectum (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Figs 35A and B: F. dimerum (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Figs 36A and B: Macroconidium with foot cell of F. solani (¾macroconidium; → microconidia; → foot cell) |
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| Fig. 37: Macroconidium of F. semitectum |
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| Fig. 38: Lasiodiplodia theobromae growth on potato dextrose agar (10 days) |
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| Fig. 39: Two-celled, pigmented pycnidioconidia of L. theobromae (¾Young conidia; → Matured conidia) |
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| Fig. 40: Culture of Neocosmospora vasinfecta grown on potato agar at 25°C for 14 days |
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| Figs 41A and B: Microscopically the perithecia are orange-brown in colour, subspherical (300-450 μm in diameter), smooth-walled and each has an apical pore |
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| Fig. 41C: Ascospores are brownish, spherical to ellipsoidal and roughed cell walls (Courtesy: Manikandan P, et al. Corneal ulcer due to Neocosmospora vasinfecta in an immunocompetent patient. Med Mycol 2007;45:Sep 18; 1-6) |
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| Fig. 42: Paecilomyces species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days |
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| Figs 43A and B: Phialides with thinly tapered apices (→) and chains of oval conidia |
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| Figs 44A and B: Penicillium species growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 7 days (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 45: Penicillium species. Phialides grouped in brush-like penicilli (→) and producing conidia in chains |
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| Fig. 46: Phialophora verrucosa growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 7 days |
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| Fig. 47: Phialides with vase shaped (→) collarette |
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| Fig. 48: Rhizopus growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days |
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| Figs 49A and B: Rhizopus spp. sporangiophores in tufts and rhizoids (→) |
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| Figs 50A and B: Scedopsorium apiospermum growth on potato dextrose agar, 25°C, 5 days (A—Surface; B—Reverse) |
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| Fig. 51: Scedosporium apiospermum conidia at the tips of more or less elongate conidophores |
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| Figs 52A and B: Scedopsorium prolificans basally inflated annellides (Surface/Reverse) |
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| Figs 53A and B: Scedosporium prolificans - Basally inflated annllides (→) |
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