Septate and Phaeroid Saprophytes

Question 1

• Characteristics: Chronic fungal sinusitis; Misdiagnosed and treated for an extended period of bacterial sinusitis
• Macroscopic Examination: Gray to brown to black
• Microscopic Examination: Conidiophores are arranged in acropetal fashion (There’s multiple cells in a cell); Short conidiophores bearing conidia in chains; Angular walls and taper toward the distant end

Answer 1

ALTERNARIA SPP.

Question 2

• Characteristics: Associated with contaminated dialysis lines; Can reduce trace elements or minerals
• Macroscopic Examination: Off-white to pink and black colonies
• Microscopic Examination: Arthroconidia

Answer 2

AUREOBASIDIUM SPP

Question 3

• Characteristics: Brains of patients with CNS disease Associated with cellulose products; Devastate printed literature and library holdings; Associated with indoor air quality problems
• Macroscopic Examination: Dirty gray to reed colonies
• Microscopic: Pineapple-shaped perithecia; Lemon-shaped ascospores

Answer 3

CHAETOMIUM SPP.

Question 4

• Macroscopic Examination: Gray to brown colony
• Microscopic Examination: Black fruiting bodies of pycnidia (langka)

Answer 4

Phoma spp.

Question 5

• Macroscopic Examination: Dark colonies
• Microscopic: Barrel-shaped conidiophores with echinulate, transverse and longitudinal cross walls conidia It is like acropetal fashion but it is larger compared to alternia

Answer 5

PITHOMYCES SPP.

Question 6

• Characteristics: Subcutaneous infection
• Macroscopic Examination: Brown to olivaceous to black colonies
• Microscopic Examination: Bear dark conidiophores with angular cross; Walls and echinulate conidia

Answer 6

ULOCLADIUM SPP.