Date: 26 November 2013
Colonies on malt agar
Copyright:
Images were kindly provided by Niall Hamilton. Copyright Fungal Research Trust
Notes:
Cultures were grown on malt extract agar. Light microscopy at 1000x stained with lacto-phenol cotton blue
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Gross pathology demonstrating the great pleural thickness and two cavities (upper lobe and superior segment of lower lobe) with fragments of fungal mass.
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Histopathological appearance of a fungus ball. Note a conidial head resulting from fungal exposure to the air.
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