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Growth characteristics of most fungi include all of the following except:

An isolate from an immunosuppressed patient’s CSF growing on cornmeal agar produces the following structures: contains blastospores, no pseudohyphae, arthrospores, or chlamydospores.  What tests should be performed next?

This blood smear shows the characteristic display of:

The typical microscopic morphology of Malassezia furfur is:

The agent of Q fever is:

Upon review of a sputum Gram stain, the technician notes that the nuclei of all of the neutrophils present in the smear are staining dark blue. The best explanation for this finding is:

  A gastric biopsy specimen was placed in the tube on the left and incubated for four hours. The tube on the right shows the results with upon removal of the tube from the incubator. Name the test and interpret the result.  

Examination of sputum may be necessary to diagnosis infection with:

  Observe the image. What organism do you suspect?

A subcutaneous nodule develops in a florist and is submitted for microbiology cultures.  Fungal cultures incubated at 30ºC grow a small, white yeast-like colony which later becomes wrinkled and leathery and brown in color.  On microscopic examination, thin septate hyphae with slender tapering conidiophores are observed, the apex of which bears small, pear-shaped conidia on delicate denticles forming a rose-like cluster.  What is the likely identification?