Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023
Research Letter
Scedosporium Infection in Recipients of Kidney Transplants from Deceased Near-Drowning Donor
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![Testing for Scedosporium aurianticum infection in 2 recipients of kidney transplants from deceased near-drowning donor, India. A, B) Potassium hydroxide mount of renal allograft tissue from transplant recipient 1 (A) and skin biopsy from transplant recipient 2 (B) showing septate hyphae. C) Culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar showing a greyish-white colony of S. aurianticum from recipients 1 (left) and 2 (right). D) Lactophenol cotton blue mount from a culture from recipient 1 showing smooth-walled sessile conidia on cylindrical or flask-shaped conidiogenous cells.](/eid/images/23-1000-F1.jpg)
Figure. Testing for Scedosporium aurianticum infection in 2 recipients of kidney transplants from deceased near-drowning donor, India. A, B) Potassium hydroxide mount of renal allograft tissue from transplant recipient 1 (A) and skin biopsy from transplant recipient 2 (B) showing septate hyphae. C) Culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar showing a greyish-white colony of S. aurianticum from recipients 1 (left) and 2 (right). D) Lactophenol cotton blue mount from a culture from recipient 1 showing smooth-walled sessile conidia on cylindrical or flask-shaped conidiogenous cells.
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