A clinical case of fungal keratitis: microscopy of corneal ulcer scrapings, May-Grünwald stain, revealing yeast-like fungal spores and pseudomycelia.
Spores and mycelia of yeast-like fungi. Corneal scraping, May-Grünwald stain. The patient was admitted to the ophthalmic microsurgery department with a corneal ulcer.
👉 Case kindly provided by Inna Storozheva, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory of the Regional Hospital, Kaliningrad.
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