Cultivo de difrentes hongos despues de dos años en agua destilada.
1: Aspergillus niger; 2: Aspergillus candidus; 3: Fusarium moniliforme;
4: Mucor sp.; 5: Syncephalastrum; 6: Trichoderma harzianum.
Peritoneal dialysis bottle and tube with a dark and hyaline foreing
body identified as Chaetomium globosum and Chrysonilia sithopila respectively.
Direct microscopic preparation from peritoneal dialysis fluid showing
filamentous fungus with dark and regularly septate mycelium (400 X).
Photograph obtained from: N Febré, V
Silva, EAS Medeiros, P Godoy, E Reyes, E Halker, O Fischman. Contamination of peritoneal
dialysis fluid by filamentous fungi. Rev Iberoam Micol
1999; 16: 238-239.