Date: 26 November 2013
Secondary metabolites, structure diagram: Trivial name – aflatoxin M2
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Species: A. flavusSystematic name: Cyclopenta[c]furo[3′,2′:4,5]furo[2,3-h][1]benzopyran-1,11-dione, 2,3,6a,8,9,9a-hexahydro-9a-hydroxy-4-methoxy-Molecular formulae: C17H14O7Molecular weight: 330Chemical abstracts number: 6885-57-0Selected references: Nakazato, Mitsuo; Morozumi, Satoshi; Saito, Kazuo; Fujinuma, Kenji; Nishima, Taichiro; Kasai, Nobuhiko (Dep. Food Hyg. and Nutr., Tokyo Metrop. Res. Lab. Public Health, Tokyo 169, Japan). Eisei Kagaku, 37(2), 107-16 (English) 1991.
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The periphery of the fungus ball is deeply eosinophilic because of the deposition of Splendore-Hoeppli material.
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Single fungal ball, moving. Radiographic appearance of a fungus ball, showing movement as the patient’s position changes.
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Oxalate crystals in the cavity wall surrounding an Aspergillus niger fungus ball (H&E, dark field, x 25).
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Aspergilloma patient. Gross pathology appearance of a fungus ball.
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Conidiophores of Aspergillus fumigatus in the mass of the fungal ball surrounded by mycelia (H&E, x 400).
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Aspergillus niger fungal ball. Calcium oxalate crystals in Aspergillus niger fungal ball. Also shown are darkly pigmented, rough-walled conidia associated with Aspergillus niger infection.
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Aspergillus niger fungus ball within an old tuberculous cavern. This patient had diabetes, a disease commonly associated with A. niger infection.
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