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Author thinks that dimorphism of certain pathogenic fungi (e.g.,Coccidioides immitis, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Histoplasma capsulatum, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, Sporotrichum schenckii), as it is currently known, is a biological nonsense. He postulates the existance, in the extra-human life of these species, of unknown circumstances under which dimorphism would be a useful and (perhaps) necessary mechanism for surviving and thriving.
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Borelli, D. Significado del dimorfismo de ciertos hongos parasitos. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 46, 237–239 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02053411
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