Figure 84 Opportunistic Fungi: MIG

Rhizopus species
Zygomycetes

• Specimen: Bronchial washing

• Medium: Sabouraud agar

Growth rate: Grows very rapidly, fills the plate or slope within few days,cottony or wooly, initially white then turning grey brown. Older cultures become deep brown to black, reverse of the colony remains pale.

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