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Contact lens culture. Lactophenol cotton blue slide preparation, x1,000. Rhizopus spp. demonstrating rhizoids (arrow head) emerging characteristically at the base of a sporangiophore.
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F1
The laboratory identified a rapidly growing mold, of the order Mucorales (class Zygomycetes), which was further characterized as Rhizopus spp. (fig. 1).
Slit-lamp photograph of resolving corneal infiltrate and satellite lesions after 1 month of treatment, using the Apple iPhone 4.
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F2
The stromal infiltrate had partially resolved with scarring at the periphery and now contained fine intrastromal crystals (fig. 2).