Date: 26 November 2013
Secondary metabolites, 3D strucuture: Trivial name – N-benzoyl-L-phenylalaninol
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Notes:
Species: A. flavipesSystematic name: Benzamide, N-[(1S)-1-(hydroxymethyl)-2-phenylethyl]-Molecular formulae: C16H17NO2Molecular weight: 255Chemical abstracts number: 4503-96-2Selected references: Clark, Alice M.; Hufford, Charles D.; Robertson, Larry W. (Sch. Pharm., Univ. Mississippi, University, Miss., USA). Lloydia, 40(2), 146-51 (English) 1977.
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BAL specimen showing hyaline, septate hyphae consistent with Aspergillus, stained with Blankophor
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Mucous plug examined by light microscopy with KOH, showing a network of hyaline branching hyphae typical of Aspergillus, from a patient with ABPA.
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Corneal scraping stained with lactophenol cotton blue showing beaded septate hyphae not typical of either Fusarium spp or Aspergillus spp, being more consistent with a dematiceous (ie brown coloured) fungus
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Corneal scrape with lactophenol cotton blue shows separate hyphae with Fusarium spp or Aspergillus spp.
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A filamentous fungus in the CSF of a patient with meningitis that grew Candida albicans in culture subsequently.
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Transmission electron micrograph of a C. neoformans cell seen in CSF in an AIDS patients with remarkably little capsule present. These cells may be mistaken for lymphocytes.
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India ink preparation of CSF showing multiple yeasts with large capsules, and narrow buds to smaller daughter cells, typical of C. neoformans
