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(a) & (b): Whitish, smooth, moist, yeast like colonies were seen at 28C, day 4 on Sabouraud Dextrose agar, colony size 0.8-1.2 mm.
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Overnight cultures revealed smooth, moist, yeast-like colonies best viewed on Sabouraud dextrose agar (Fig. 1(a) and (b)), and to a lesser extent on blood agar and chocolate agar.
The above pictomicrographs labelled Fig. 2(a) and (b) were taken from a direct colony smear stained with Lactophenol cotton blue dye and viewed at 40x magnification. As shown by arrows are large sporangia (theca) which contains small sporangiophores or endospores. No budding cells are present.
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A direct smear of the colonies were made and stained via Lactophenol Cotton Blue dye, which revealed similar large morula-like structures with better clarity, likely to be endospore-forming organism (Fig. 2(a), and (b)).