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A fungus from bronchial lavage fluid from a patient with pulmonary infiltration was isolated in pure culture and identified as a species of Pseudomicrodochium. It is compared and contrasted with other species of the genus, in particular P. suttonii, and formally described as P. fusarioides.
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Sutton, B.C., Campbell, C.K. & Goldschmied-Reouven, A. Pseudomicrodochium fusarioides sp. nov., isolated from human bronchial fluid. Mycopathologia 114, 159–161 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00437207
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00437207