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Direct Gram stain from both positive blood culture bottles revealed budding yeast cells (BYCs).
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Direct Gram stain from both positive blood culture bottles revealed budding yeast cells (Figure 1).
White to cream-colored, glabrous yeast-like colonies of W. anomalus were formed on SDA at 37 C after 24 hours of incubation.
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C (Figure 2). Conventional methods such as lactophenol cotton blue (LPCB) mount and cornmeal agar (CMA) showed spherical to ellipsoidal budding yeast cells with abundant pseudohyphae.
CHROM agar Candida showed the presence of pink mucoid colonies of W. anomalus grown after 48 hours at 37 C.
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CHROMagar Candida showed the presence of pink mucoid colonies of W. anomalus grown after 48 hours at 37 C (Figure 3).