Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Infections

Case Study #2

September 2011

So we knew the patient had a diagnosis of fungal endocarditis. We saw the vegetation, we saw the hyphae in there and that was the diagnosis. And that was as far as we could go hoping that the culture that had been taken would grow and give us some information.

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