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Volume 30, Number 6—June 2024
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Molecular Identification of Fonsecaea monophora, Novel Agent of Fungal Brain Abscess

Sudesh Gourav, Gagandeep Singh, Mragnayani Pandey, Bhaskar Rana, Sonakshi Gupta, Himanshu Mishra, and Immaculata XessComments to Author 
Author affiliation: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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Figure 1

Lactophenol cotton blue mount of a culture from a brain biopsy sample from a 3-year-old patient in India with Fonsecaea monophora infection, showing dematiaceous septate hyphae with different types of conidiation (arrowheads). A) Multicelled sessile conidial chains resembling genus Cladophialophora, leading to the initial misidentification. B) Fonsecaea-type conidiation. C) Rhinocladiella-type conidiation. D) Asterisks of Fonsecaea-type conidiation.

Figure 1. Lactophenol cotton blue mount of a culture from a brain biopsy sample from a 3-year-old patient in India with Fonsecaea monophora infection, showing dematiaceous septate hyphae with different types of conidiation (arrowheads). A) Multicelled sessile conidial chains resembling genus Cladophialophora, leading to the initial misidentification. B) Fonsecaea-type conidiation. C) Rhinocladiella-type conidiation. D) Asterisks of Fonsecaea-type conidiation.

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