Photo Quiz: PAS- and GMS-positive filamentous branching organisms in an immunocompromised patient

Veronica Vine Nicholas¹, Iain Miller¹, Jordan Mah^{1

2}, Kerri E Rieger^{1

3

4}, Indre Budvytiene², Niaz Banaei^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
² Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.

Editorial

Veronica Vine Nicholas et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 11;62(12):e0038724.

doi: 10.1128/jcm.00387-24. Epub 2024 Dec 11.

Veronica Vine Nicholas¹, Iain Miller¹, Jordan Mah^{1

2}, Kerri E Rieger^{1

3

4}, Indre Budvytiene², Niaz Banaei^{1

2}

¹ Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
² Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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