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. 2021 Dec 17;36(1):329.
doi: 10.4102/sajid.v36i1.329. eCollection 2021.

Exogenous fungal endophthalmitis in a potato farm worker

Ghowa Booley  1 , Raphael Chanda  1 , Priscilla Daries  2 , Clive Misland  2 , Adrian J Brink  1 , Leandri Linde  3 , Christoffel J Opperman  4
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Exogenous fungal endophthalmitis in a potato farm worker

Ghowa Booley et al. S Afr J Infect Dis. .
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Dark-grey colonies (a) with pale-yellow reverse (b) of Scedosporium apiospermum macroscopically, grown at 35 °C on Sabouraud Dextrose media with amikacin. Microscopic view of Scedosporium apiospermum stained with lactophenol cotton blue (binocular, light microscope: 200X). The red box (dashed line) area highlights the conidiophores aggregated in the characteristic bundles of tree-like synnemata (c).
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