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Stain: LPAB x400

• Brown septate hyphae, some are warty like rough walled

• Rough-walled, slender, funnel-shaped phialides & tapering at the tip

• Septum observed at the base

• Thin-walled, ellipsoidal, hyaline conidia

• Identified as Phaeoacremonium parasiticum

P. inflatipas was identified by the reference laboratory

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