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Under a low-power magnification, this photomicrograph of a hair shaft, which had been extracted from a patient with a condition known as black piedra, due to the fungal organism, Piedraia hortae, revealed darkly pigmented, fungal lesions along the shaft.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ William Kaplan, DVM
Creation Date: 1964
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