Figure 3.

Cultures of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from a 24-year-old male patient that presented with a 6-month history of recurrent cough and expectoration without fever, shortness of breath or chest pain. (A) Fungal spores seen in phagocytes from BALF (red arrow) (scale bar 15 µm). (B) Culture of BALF revealed Talaromyces marneffei, which showed temperature-dependent dimorphic growth characteristics and the cells produced a soluble red pigment at 25 °C. (C) A mycelium was produced at temperatures between 25 °C and 30 °C. (D) Fungus growing as yeast-like cells at 37 °C. The colour version of this figure is available at: http://imr.sagepub.com.