Ann Lab Med.  2020 Jan;40(1):84-87. 10.3343/alm.2020.40.1.84.

Five Korean Cases of Respiratory Tract Infection by Filamentous Basidiomycetes

• Lee JM
• Han E
• Kim J
• Park JH
• Sung GH
• Shin JH
• Park YJ

• KMID: 2457500
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2020.40.1.84

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Basidiomycota*
Respiratory System*
Respiratory Tract Infections*

Figure

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  Fig. 1 White mold growth in five cases of basidiomycetes inoculated on Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) following incubation at 28℃ under light for two weeks; lactophenol cotton blue mount of the mold slide culture on SDA at a magnification of ×400. (A) White colony and (B) hyaline hyphae with clusters of rectangular arthroconidia of Coprinopsis cinerea; (C) white colony and (D) spicules (arrows) of Emmia lacerata; (E) white colony of Irpex lacteus; (F) I. lacteus slide showing only hyaline hyphae; (G) white colony and (H) clamp connections (arrows) of Schizophyllum commune; (I) white colony of Porostereum spadiceum; (J) P. spadiceum showing enlarged hyphae (arrows).

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