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Coccidioides immitis.

Direct microscopy of skin scrapings from a cutaneous lesion mounted in 10% KOH and Parker ink solution showing characteristic endosporulating spherules (sporangia) of Coccidioides immitis. The presence of spherules with endospores is diagnostic.