Case Report

Detection of the Dimorphic Phases of Mucor circinelloides in Blood Cultures from an Immunosuppressed Female

Figure 1

Gram stain of M. circinelloides dimorphic phases from a positive blood culture. (a) Pauciseptate wide hyphae with right-angle branching (100x magnification). (b) Circumferentially budding yeast resembling the yeast phase of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (500x magnification).
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