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Curvularia species

• Stain: Lactophenol Aniline Blue

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Structures: Brown septate hyphae, conidiophores are brown, erect, simple or branched, multi-cellular producing sympodial (poroconidia) ellipsoidal, brown, multi-septate curved conidia with central cell typically enlarged and darker than the rest of the cells.

 

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