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Blastoschizomyces capitatus
(formerly Trichosporon capitatus)

• Corn Meal Agar Morphology x400

• Round to oval yeast (not shown)

• Hyphae & pseudohyphae

• Annellides

• Few arthroconidia
Isolated from blood. Causes infrequent invasive & systemic infections among immunocompromised patients.

 

 

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