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Figures & data
Figure 1 (A) Fluoroscopy of mechanical prosthetic mitral valve showed one fixed leaflet. (B) Mechanical prosthetic mitral valve from surgery showed large thrombus and pannus. (C) Chest X-ray demonstrated pulmonary edema.
Figure 2 (A, B) Transesophageal echocardiography showed large vegetation (arrow) of aorta.
Figure 3 (A) Dichotomous branching hyphae in KOH preparation (magnification 40×). (B) Dichotomous branching hyphae in PAS stain (magnification 40×). (C) The microscopic appearance of Aspergillus flavus, showing an echinulate colorless conidiophore and a globose vesicle covered by uniseriate phialides with globose echinulate conidia.
Figure 4 Agarose-gel electrophoresis of ß-tubulin PCR products. Lane N, negative control; lane A, DNA extracted from negative blood culture; lane B DNA extracted from colonies grown on SDA; lane M, 100,bp DNA size marker.
