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Blastomyces dermatitidis

• Stain: LPAB

• Magnification: x400
Spherical conidia attached terminally on the conidiophore. The length of the conidiophore varies like microconidia in histoplasma.

Blastomyces dermatitidis does not produce macroconidia.

 
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