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Small forms and hyphae of paracoccidioides brasiliensis in human tissue
Mycopathologia
|August 29, 1980
Abstract:
A 53 year-old man had a three-year recurrent respiratory infection. No fungi was detected in sputum examinations. Immunodiffusion test with paracoccidiodin revealed two precipitin bands. Very small forms and hyphae of a fungus were seen on silver methenamine stained serial sections from lung's lesion. P. brasiliensis was identified on the basis of the rare multibudding small forms.
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