Cladophialophora Coccidioides sp. Dermatophytes Epicoccum spp. Zygomycetes Scedosporium spp. Description Colonies are rapid growing, spreading, cottony, at first white, becoming pale smoky brown. Conidiophores are short or long, hypha-like.
Conidiogenous cells are cylindrical annellides.
Conidia are 1-celled, solitary or in balls, subglobose to elongate, smooth hyaline to pale brown. Graphium, Pseudallescheria, or both forms may be present. Salient characteristics Scedosporium isolates form 1 -celled, brownish conidia that arise solitarily on hyphalike conidiophores, in clusters at the apices of annellides, or in both ways. Scedosporium apiospermum , previously known as Monosporium apiospermum , is often referred to by its sexual form name Pseudallescheria boydii . Scedosporium prolificans is the second pathogen in the genus Scedosporium, for which a sexual form is unknown Scedosporium apiospermum Laboratory precautions Handle with care, but special precautions are not necessary.