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**Uniform width - typically ~3-5 μm. | **Uniform width - typically ~3-5 μm. | ||
*Septated - often difficult to see. | *Septated - often difficult to see. | ||
*Fruiting heads when aerobic - uncommon. | *"Fruiting heads" when aerobic - uncommon. | ||
**Spherical structures ~50 micrometres in diameter with radially arranged structures (like spokes of a wheel) +/- an empty centre in the plane of section. | |||
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*Scedosporium prolificans.<ref>URL: [http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case290.html http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case290.html]. Accessed on: 14 January 2012.</ref> | *[[Mucormycosis]] - irregular width. | ||
*Scedosporium prolificans - in immunoincompetent individuals.<ref>URL: [http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case290.html http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case290.html]. Accessed on: 14 January 2012.</ref> | |||
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