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Case Reports
. 2005 Mar;43(3):1484-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.3.1484-1487.2005.

Airway colonization by Acrophialophora fusispora in patients with cystic fibrosis

Bernard Cimon  1 , Svetlana Challier, Hugues Béguin, Jacqueline Carrère, Dominique Chabasse, Jean-Philippe Bouchara
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Airway colonization by Acrophialophora fusispora in patients with cystic fibrosis

Bernard Cimon et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Mar.

Abstract

Acrophialophora fusispora is a thermotolerant soil fungus which is very unusual in clinical samples. Here we report four cases of transient or chronic airway colonization by A. fusispora in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). However, the prevalence of this fungus in CF patients may be underestimated due to the currently poor knowledge of this fungus in most of the medical mycology laboratories. In addition, its clinical importance regarding CF remains to be evaluated.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Microscopic morphology of A. fusispora. (A) Long chains of conidia produced by flask-shaped conidiogenous cells arising on vegetative hyphae. (B) A basally inflated phialide with an elongated neck arising on a short conidiophore. (C to E) Limoniform-to-fusiform single-celled conidia with ornamentations in spiral bands visualized by interferential phase-contrast microscopy. Bars, 5 μm.
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