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Verticillium sp.Colonies are fast growing, suede-like to downy, white to pale yellow in colour, becoming pinkish brown, red, green or yellow with a colourless, yellow or reddish brown reverse. Conidiophores are usually well differentiated and erect, verticillately branched over most of their length, bearing whorls of slender awl-shaped divergent phialides. Conidia are hyaline or brightly coloured, mostly one-celled, and are usually borne in slimy heads (glioconidia).
Conidiophores, phialides and conidia of Verticillium sp. Clinical significance:Members of this genus are often isolated from the environment. It has been reported as a rare agent of mycotic keratitis. Mycosis: HyalohyphomycosisFurther 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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