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Cerebral Mycosis

• Stain: LPAB

• Magnification: x400

• Right angle conidiophores

• Brown ellipsoidal conidia, basal scar

• Holoblastic, sympodially proliferating

• Resembles Fonseceae

• Ramichloridium mackenziei identified by UAMC & Herbarium

• Ramichloridium mackenziei is the first Canadian case of cerebral mycosis. Usually almost all cases causing cerebral mycosis have occurred exclusively in the Middle East.
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