A Graduate Student Returning from a Month-Long Fieldwork Experience in South

Multiple Choice

A graduate student returning from a month-long fieldwork experience in South America develops a dark nodular lesion on his left hand. Microscopic examination of the nodule reveals dark, coinlike inclusions. The following organism grows in culture. This organism is most likely

A) Cladosporium spp.
B) Candida spp.
C) Coccidioides immitis.
D) Cryptococcus neoformans.