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J Clin Microbiol
; 46(11): 3839-41, 2008 Nov.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18799695
RESUMO
Fonsecaea pedrosoi is the main agent of chromoblastomycosis, a skin disease presenting verrucous lesions, in which round, thick-walled sclerotic cells are found. In vitro induction of sclerotic cells is time-consuming (20 to 45 days) and temperature dependent. We present two new natural media that reduce the sclerotic-cell induction time to only 2 days.