PMC8549385_01
Disseminated ulcerative lesions.
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F1
A male in his 40s, who had been diagnosed with HIV 6 years previously, presented with a 7-month history of disseminated nodular and ulcerating lesions (Figs 1 and 2).
Right ear ulcerating lesions.
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F2
A male in his 40s, who had been diagnosed with HIV 6 years previously, presented with a 7-month history of disseminated nodular and ulcerating lesions (Figs 1 and 2).
S. schenckii colonies on Sabouraud's dextrose agar at 25  C (front).
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F3
C that were slow growing, moist and glabrous, with a wrinkled and folded surface. Colonies were white with an orange-brown reverse (Figs 3 and 4).
S. schenckii colonies on Sabouraud's dextrose agar at 25  C (reverse).
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F4
C that were slow growing, moist and glabrous, with a wrinkled and folded surface. Colonies were white with an orange-brown reverse (Figs 3 and 4).
S. schenckii lactophenol cotton blue stain microscopy at 1000x magnification showing thin, 1-2 microm in diameter, septate, branching hyphae that give rise to delicate conidiophores and pyriform conidia that are arranged in a daisy flower like pattern on tiny denticles at the apex of the conidiophore.
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F5
Conidia were formed in clusters on tiny denticles at the apex of the conidiophore, with their arrangement being suggestive of a flower (Fig. 5).
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