Figure 55 Opportunistic Fungi: MIG

Acremonium recifei

• Specimen: Thigh Aspirate

• Stain: Lactophenol Aniline Blue

• Magnification: x400

Structure: Erect, short and branched conidiophores, phialides narrow often in small groups on short lateral branches bearing small slightly curved conidia. Thin walled chlamydospores maybe present in older cultures.

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