Figure 2

Macroscopic and microscopic photographs of the mould and non-mould fungi. (a) Seventy-two hours after culture of samples scraped from the patient cornea, two superposed colonies were observed growing on SDA. The larger colony (arrow) was mould, cottony and floccose at the edge with pale brown color, which was embedded by a smaller colony showing creamy and shiny appearance (triangle). (b) In slide culture of the mould colony, conidia are cylindrical to slight clavate with 6 to 13 pseudosepta. The hila of the conidia are black and distinctly protuberant (arrow). The pale end cells of the conidia are not separated from the intercalary golden-brown cells by thick-walled distosepta (triangle). (original magnification ×800). (c) In smearing of the non-mould colony, ellipse or ovoid budding yeast-like cells, 2.0-3.5 x 3.0-4.5 µm in size, and abundant pseudomycelium consisting of elongate cells, 2.0-3.5 × 10–15 μm in size are also observed. (original magnification ×800).