Mucor - broad, short non-septate hyphae
Paracoccidioides - large yeast with small peripheral buds ("captain's wheel')
| Fungal Morphology in Tissues | |||||||||||||||
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| | Budding cells with short pseudohyphae and no branching
| | Aspergillus - septate hyphae with branching at an acute angle | Mucor - broad, short non-septate hyphae | Round to [American] football-shaped with narrow-based budding, often has a large, thick surrounding capsule
| | Small, round yeasts are usually intracellular
| | Large thick-walled spherules filled with endospores
| | Blastomyces - Rounded yeasts with broad-based budding | Paracoccidioides - large yeast with small peripheral buds ("captain's wheel') | These dermatophytes produce superficial skin infections such as Tinea corporis ("ringworm") and Tinea pedis ("athlete's foot"). The thin hyphae have various fruiting structures
| | Classed as a fungus but proliferates like a protozoan, with each organism giving rise to 8 intracystic bodies
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