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Amaliya A Stepanova1, G Sybren de Hoog2, Nataliya V Vasilyeva1
1Kashkin Research Institute of Medical Mycology, I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University, Saint Petersburg 194291, Russia.
Abstract:
Ultrastructural features of conidia, lateral walls of aerial and submerged hyphal cells, and of septal pore apparatus of Scedosporium apiospermum, S. boydii, Pseudallescheria angusta and Scedosporium aurantiacum were studied. Submerged hyphal cells possessed a thick extracellular matrix. Crystalline satellites accessory to the septal pore apparatus were revealed. Fundamental ultrastructural features appeared to be heterogeneous at low taxonomic levels. The closely interrelated members of the S. apiospermum complex showed quantitative ultrastructural variability, but the unambiguously different species S. aurantiacum deviated qualitatively by markers of conidial wall structure, Woronin bodies morphology and presence/absence of crystalline satellites of the septal pore apparatus.
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