The Gram stain revealed nothing that lookod Hoe becteria and Bronda in reliovod. On the other hand, since the fungi had reproductive structures, she is womind about tho reat of the equpment, Branda knows that fungal bpores epreed contamination readily, so ohe is conceerned that evon areas that look all right oould have spores that would germinate later. Although sho is pretty sure that the dontaminant is a xypomycote, ahe knows that she will likoly need to grow the fungan on the Sabouraud agar plate and send it in for genotic testing to identily the genus and apecies, Growing the fungus will toke seiverai dayn and the penetic losting can take a woek or more. At lunah, Erenda ohecks hor emait. She has been following a story abeut an outbreak of an atypical raspratory intection in diabetic and inmunonupprossed indivduais. The iatest newi is that the inlecton oppears to bo fungal and a respiratory pationt had died after the inloction spread to the brain. Brenda almost chokes on har lunoh; she has no tesason to believe that the fungel costaminant that phe just lound is related to this outbreak, but the 2012 meningifis outbreak lingers in het mind, 8 ine gots tight back to work looking up rygomycosis infections and what kindp of aymptome they can causo. Drag the nymptomn and mode of transmission to the eorrect rygomyeoses..