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Descriptions of Medical Fungi<br />

Synonymy: Pseudallescheria boydii (Shear) McGinnis, A.A. Padhye & Ajello.<br />

RG-2 organism.<br />

Scedosporium boydii (Shear) Gilgado et al.<br />

Morphological Description: Colonies are fast growing, greyish-white, suede-like<br />

to downy with a greyish-black reverse. Numerous single-celled, pale-brown, broadly<br />

clavate to ovoid conidia, 4-9 x 6-10 µm, rounded above with truncate bases are<br />

observed. Conidia are borne singly or in small groups on elongate, simple or branched<br />

conidiophores or laterally on hyphae. Cleistothecia (non-ostiolate ascocarps) are<br />

yellow-brown to black, spherical, 50-200 μm in diameter, and are mostly submerged<br />

in the agar and are composed of irregularly interwoven brown hyphae. When crushed<br />

cleistothecia release numerous, faintly brown, ellipsoidal ascospores, 4-5 x 7- 9 µm<br />

in size. Erect synnemata may be present in some isolates. Optimum temperature for<br />

growth is 30-37 O C.<br />

Note: S. boydii is homothallic and is recognised by smaller cleistothecia (50-200 μm)<br />

whereas S. apiospermum is heterothallic (requires mating of two strains) and has<br />

larger cleistothecia, 140-480 μm (Gilgado et al. 2010).<br />

a<br />

Scedosporium boydii (a) culture and a (b) cleistothecium.<br />

b<br />

20 µm<br />

Antifungal Susceptibility: S. boydii vs S. apiospermum (Lackner et al. 2014b).<br />

S. boydii S. apiospermum<br />

Antifungal (MIC µg/mL)<br />

Range MIC 90<br />

Range MIC 90<br />

AmB 0.5->16 >16 0.5->16 >16<br />

VORI 0.125-2 2 0.25->8 2<br />

POSA 0.125->16 >16 0.25->16 >16<br />

ITRA 0.125->16 >16 0.25->16 >16

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