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Lecythophora hoffmanniiColonies are flat, smooth, moist, pink to orange, with regular and sharp margin; reverse pink. Hyphae are narrow, hyaline, producing conidia laterally from small collarettes directly on the hyphae, or from lateral cells which are sometimes arranged in dense groups; lateral cells flask-shaped or nearly cylindrical. Collarettes are unpigmented, about 1.5 µm wide. Conidia are hyaline, smooth and thin walled, broadly ellipsoidal to cylindrical or allantoid, 3.0-3.5 x 1.5-2.5 µm, produced in slimy heads. RG-1 organism.
Culture, hyphae with small collarettes and conidia of Lecythophora hoffmannii.
MIC data is limited. Antifungal susceptibility testing of individual strains is recommended.
Clinical significance:Lecythophora contains 6 species, with two species of medical interest; L hoffmannii and L. mutabilis. Mycosis: PhaeohyphomycosisFurther reading:Domsch, K.H., W. Gams, and T.H. Anderson. 1980. Compendium of soil fungi. Volume 1. Academic Press, London, UK. Rippon, J.W. 1988. Medical Mycology. 3rd Edition. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, USA.
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