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Owner & Head of Microbiology Department at Balsam 🏥 Laboratory, Former Lab Coordinator at Medya Diagnostic Center, Former ( LT at PAR 🏥,HOD at Proximal Clinics Lab ,supervisor at Malaika Rahma Lab)

Mortierella wolfii Culture: Culture of Mortierella wolfii are fast growing, white to greyish white, downy, often with a broadly zonate or lobed (rosette-like) surface appearance and no reverse pigment. Microscopy: Sporangium with acrotonous (terminal) branches and rhizoids of M. wolfii. Comment: The genus Mortierella has now been placed in a separate order, the Mortierellales (Cavalier-Smith 1998). The genus contains about 90 recognised species, however Mortierella wolfii is probably the only pathogenic species being an important causal agent of bovine mycotic abortion, pneumonia and systemic mycosis in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and USA. Confirmed human infections have not been documented. M. wolfii has also been isolated from soil, rotten silage, hay and coal spoil tips.

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