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Acremonium kiliensis

• Specimen: Vitreous fluid

• Stain: Lactophenol Aniline Blue

• Magnification: x1000


Structure: Narrow fragile hyphae, thin walled, cylindrical, slightly tapering hyphae with basal or intercalary septum, ellipsoidal to short cylindrical conidia held in slimy gel at the tip of the phialides. Terminal or intercalary chlamydospores may be seen (not shown here).

 

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