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Acremonium

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Acremonium /Ac·re·mo·ni·um/ (ak?re-mo´ne-um) a genus of imperfect fungi rarely isolated from human infection. A. falcifor´me, A. kilien´se, and A. reci´fei are agents of eumycotic mycetoma.
Ac·re·mo·ni·um (kr-mn-m)
n.
A genus of fungi that cause certain forms of mycetoma.

Acremonium
a genus of endophytic fungi with species symbiotic in Lolium perenne, Festuca arundinacea; produce toxic lolitrems and ergot alkaloids respectively. Unspecified species have been reported as a cause of eumycotic mycetoma and systemic mycosis in dogs.

Acremonium coenophialum
see Neotyphodium coenophialum.
Acremonium hiliense
has been isolated from keratoconjunctivitis in a dog.
Acremonium lolii
see Neotyphodium lolii.

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The micromorphologic features of the mold, cultured 3 to 4 days only, resembled a Fusarium or Acremonium species (Figure 2a).
 
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