Date: 27 January 2014
Copyright:
Fungal Research Trust
Notes:
This 73 year old patient with CPA in right upper lobe and COPD who was also a heavy smoker, showed evidence of finger clubbing ( A,B,C). He has been on long term itraconazole, in 1990 he had an oesophagectomy for cancer of the oesophagus. Finger clubbing is an uncommon symptom only seen in advanced or chronic disease. D, chest X ray there are background changes nof COPD with loss of volume in the right hemithorax and a right apical cavititating lesion.
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Emericella nidulans (Eidam), Anamorph: Aspergillus nidulans (Eidam) – Hulle cells
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Emericella nidulans (Eidam), Anamorph: Aspergillus nidulans (Eidam)
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Emericella nidulans (Eidam), Anamorph: Aspergillus nidulans (Eidam)
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Emericella nidulans (Eidam), Anamorph: Aspergillus nidulans (Eidam)
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Spitzenkorper; phase contrast micrograph of A.nidulans after one day grown at 25°C in minimal media containing 17% gelatin showing spitzenkorper and fungal cell morphology
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Interference contrast micrograph of A.nidulans after one day at 25°C in minimal media containing 17% gelatin
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Hyphal growth. Micro-colony of A.nidulans grown overnight at 25°C in minimal media containing 17% gelatin
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Mitochondria organisation: GFP fluorescence micrographs showing mitochondrial organisation in an A.nidulans strain with GFP mitochondria, grown at 25°C in minimal media.
