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20<br />

Descriptions of Medical Fungi<br />

Aspergillus lentulus Balajee & Marr<br />

Antifungal Susceptibility: A. lentulus (Australian National data); MIC µg/mL.<br />

No 16<br />

AmB 5 1 1 3<br />

VORI 5 3 2<br />

POSA 5 1 1 3<br />

ITRA 5 2 1 1 1<br />

Neosartorya fischeri (Wehmer) Malloch & Cain<br />

Neosartorya fischeri is mostly found in canned foodstuffs and is now documented as a<br />

causative agent of invasive aspergillosis in immunosuppressed patients.<br />

RG-1 organism.<br />

Morphological Description: Colonies of N. fischeri are suede-like to floccose, white<br />

to pale yellow with slow to poor conidiation. Conidial heads are short, columnar and<br />

uniseriate. Conidiophore stipes are smooth-walled and vesicles are usually subglobose<br />

to flask-shaped. Conidia globose to subglobose (2-2.5 µm in diameter), smooth to<br />

finely roughened. Good growth at 37 O C.<br />

a<br />

b<br />

b<br />

10 μm<br />

10 μm<br />

Neosartorya fischeri (a) culture and<br />

(b) conidial head morphology.

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