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Candida lusitaniae

• Corn Meal Agar Morphology x400

• Slender, branched & curved pseudohyphae

• Elongated blastospores in short chains
Isolated from urine. An opportunistic pathogen among immunocompromised hosts. Develops resistance to Amphotericin B.

 

 

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