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Mucor circinelloides
Zygomycetes

• Specimen: Sputum

• Medium: Sabouraud agar
Growth rate: Fast growing, spreading, floccose, wooly, light greyish to brown.

Frequently causes animal infections, occasionally causes human infections.

 
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