| galas eee Oem TABLE 6.9 Identification of the most common epecies of Aspergilue (9e6 description Of onp. 192) : A fumigatus” A. niger A favus A. versicolor PATHOGENICITY Most common cause of Usually considereda Usually a contaminant ‘aspergillosis ‘contaminant, but also but also known to known to cause cause disease; disease in the commonly associated debilitated with aflatoxins MACROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY® Velvety orpowdery, at Wooly, at first white to. —_Velvaty, yellow to green first white, then tuming yellow, then tuming ‘or brown. Reverse dark greenish to gray. black. Reverse white _goldish to red brown Reverse white to tan to yellow MICROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY OF CONIDIOPHORES: ‘Short (<300 ym) Long Variable length Long Soh, ‘Smooth, Rough, pitted, spiny Smee? MIGROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY OF PHIALIDES _ Uniseriate, usually only _Biseriate, cover entire Uniseriate and biseriate, _Biseriate, loosely radiate, ‘on upper two-thirds of ver form “radiate” cover entire vesicle, cover most of vesicle vesicle, parallel to axis head point out in all (Hille cells may be ‘of conidiophore directions present) fumigatus grows well at 45° *Classically studied on Czapek-Dox agar; Juxuriantly but not always characteristically. DETAILED DESCRIPTIONSA. nidulans PATHOGENICITY eee Usually considered a Commonly known as a Commonly considered a Commonly considers Contaminant, but has A. glaucus group A. terreus A. clavatus 4 Contaminant, but also contaminant, but also contaminant been involved in known to cause known to cause infections infection under certain infection conditions MACROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY Velvety; usually green, Feltlike; green with Usually velvety, Feltlike, blue green. but buff to yellow Vell Brads cfnaiien brown. Reverse Baie an where cleistothecia occasionally brown. Reverse white to become br form. Reverse purplish Reverse yellowish to brown ae ted becoming dark maroon (grows best with 20% sucrose added to the medium) MICROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY OF CONIDIOPHORES Short (<250 um) Variable length Short (<250 ym) Long Smooth, brown Smooth Smooth Smooth MICROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY OF PHIALIDES Biseriate, short Uniseriate, radiate to Biseriate, compactly Uneetee, ot columnar. very loosely columnar, columnar (round crams oe Cleistothecia usually cover entire vesicle hyaline cells produced risised estoly 200 x present with reddish (cleistothecia generally on mycelium (appr res; present) submerged in agar) 40 um) Hiille cells often abundant. THERMALLY MONOMORPHIC MOLDS 191