Introduction to Clinical Mycology

Effect of Cycloheximide–Aspergillus niger

February 2012

This is Aspergillus niger. If we had a patient who had a disease caused by Aspergillus niger, we would never recover it on the plate on the bottom because that plate contains cycloheximide. The other 2 would, since they lack cycloheximide. So cycloheximide is used for compound used in the right way.

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